Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's

From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>
To: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:32:40 -0500

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:

Do I remember that Digital's VMS OS didn't have text files, only records?

Sort of. Original VMS had a block-structured file system on top of which the records were layered. However, it supported both fixed and variable-length records, as well as sequential, random, and indexed access (essentially cloned from IBM's VSAM). Variable-length sequential records were the moral equivalent of text files.

Later on, stream organization was added to support C and C++ programming.

GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures

References:
- Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS'srepresent newline differently
  - From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS'srepresent newline differently
  - From: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>
- Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's represent newline differently
  - From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
- Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS's represent newline differently
  - From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's represent newline differently
  - From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>

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