Re: Text file type hint proposal for filexfer

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Richard Whalen <Whalenr%process.com@localhost> writes:

> Your impression is correct.  Many text files on VMS do not store the line
> break sequence.

Is it possible for a VMS application (in particular, an sftp server on
VMS), to reliably figure out wether or not given file is a "text file"
using this record format, or a binary file (whatever that means on
VMS)?

That is, can the proposed file mode hint be reliably supported on VMS?

/Niels