From: Paul Koning
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 12:40
That's odd, I thought that (on VMS) you didn't have any choice about using
RMS.
Well, not unless doing raw block I/O.
That is how I recall it; it was RMS or else use ACP/XQIOP block I/O.
Stream is one of the formats supported by RMS, exactly as fixed and
variable records
(with prefix length) are. Actually, stream comes in three flavors,
depending on
whether the record delimiter is LF, CR, or CR/LF. RMS-11 also supports
these, FWIW.
So unless license manager goes out of its way to enforce a particular
record format
for its input files, I would think it "should just work", RMS should read
the on-disk
format and deliver the records (lines) according to the encoding described
by the file attributes.
Inasmuch as I correctly recall all these arcana, it *should* just work. I'm
guessing
that the problem we're discussing is that the RMS format and attribute
fields are
not set correctly for the file's actual content; e.g., RMS thinks it's
VAR-CR but there
are nevertheless embedded LFs.
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