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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Bad articles coming in - they contain batches
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Date: Sun, 26-Aug-84 02:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 26 02:35:00 1984
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Although I haven't seen any of this, I could see how it
could happen if a Eunice site tries to create batches....Because
the OS wizards at DEC (in their infinite wisdom) have thrust upon
users of VMS a veritable plethora of file types, the size
reported by a "stat" (or whatever) call may not correspond
to the number of characters you can read out of the file, but
rather to the amount of space taken up on the disk (what?
they aren't the same?  why would you assume that?)  You see,
VMS really likes to create its text files as variable length
records (I think they are called) which look like  as opposed to Unix which has .
Consider yourself warned.....
-- 
Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,idi,omsvax}!intelca!kds
	
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