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by heinvandenheuvel
Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:32 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Forum question (as opposed to TextPad question)
Replies: 5
Views: 497

So Dave... is this question about a 'this is a stupid idea, do not implement' choice button prompted by my VMS file format suggestion?

:-)

[for the innocent bystanders... Dave and VMS go way back]

Cheers,
Hein.
by heinvandenheuvel
Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:24 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: VMS variable length record file format?
Replies: 5
Views: 624

- Yes, I could script an import/export style task, but that wouldn't help the large community. Then again, maybe I am the only one ever having run into this. It is also easily fixed by using an ftp in ascii mode from vms. But this happened to me when I opened an attached file in a forum, so the file...
by heinvandenheuvel
Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:06 am
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: VMS variable length record file format?
Replies: 5
Views: 624

VMS variable length record file format?

Any chance for more file formats?!. Textpad seems to do a great job on various stream text files, be they CR, LF or CRLF terminated records. However, I recently had to look at a file that came in from a VMS system where the default file format for text files is something called 'variable length reco...