Re: Creating STLMF files by default ?

On Mar 16, 1:53 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there some magical logical name that would result in text files being
created in streamlf or other "unix" file format by default ?

No.
It would seem a reasonable SET RMS feature, but it does not exist
today.

Mind you, it would create `unexplainable' havoc and tghus support
issues at time.
The current super-set of VFC + PRN allows process permanent files to
'suck' up redirected smart-formatted output from Cobol as well as
Fortran. You'd loose that.

Transferring the files in FTP (Ascii mode) or ZIP tends to make this a
non issue (for me)

The classic workaround, as others outlined is to pre-create with FDL.
Or copy an empty template in place and append to that.
On OpenVMS 8.3 you do not even need a explicit or embedded FDL file.
Just use:
$ cre/fdl="r; f stream_lf" file.txt ! "record; format ..."
$ open/append file file.txt

(creating in VMS native format on VMS, and then getting the mac to read
it via NFS is not relaiable since the NFS server on VMS sometimes does a
good job of translating from VMS to unix format, but sometimes it doesn't)..

What kind of lame description is that ?!
Surely you figured out the criteria which make this seem to work or
not?!

Cheers.
Hein.

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