Re: Text file type hint proposal for filexfer

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

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

> Yes, it is possible for a VMS application to reliably report on whether
> or not a given file is a text file or not.  This information is stored
> in the file header (inode in Unix speak).

Nice.

> Our current SFTP implementation uses the file header information to do
> on the fly conversion of the various VMS text file formats to a stream
> of characters format when transferring text file to a non-VMS
> system.

Out of curiosity, what happens if the sftp client tries to open these
files in binary mode?

/Niels