Re: Text editor mirage

From: Marcus Reichardt <u123724@gmail.com>
To: "Joel J. Bender" <jjb5@cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:55:14 +0100

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> Text files in VAX/VMS were variable length records

Well, it's not just VMS files, but owing to IBM mainframe practices, SGML documents themselves are conceptually modelled as (sequences of) "records" delimited by Record Start/End signals (which don't necessarily have to be generated by newline characters, or any other ASCII characters for that matter).

Marcus

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Am 13.12.2021 um 15:48 schrieb Joel J. Bender <jjb5@cornell.edu>:

This is nothing to do with XML, it's equally true of any text file.

Almost. Like everything else there are exceptions. ithout (a) line termination character(s) which made for “interesting” FTP sessions between Windows, Mac, VMS and CP/CMS.

Joel

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- Re: Text editor mirage
  - From: "Joel J. Bender" <jjb5@cornell.edu>

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