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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system
Message-ID: <8215@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 19 Sep 88 01:15:36 GMT
References: <411@marob.MASA.COM> <3597@encore.UUCP> <3438@crash.cts.com>
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In article <3438@crash.cts.com>, jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) wrote:

> I disagree.  I much prefer VMS's variable-length-record text file format
> to Unix's byte-stream.  Why?  Because the Unix byte stream uses perfectly
> legitimate data as a record separator.

In reading the write(2) man page, I somehow completely missed the
discussion of file record separators in unix.
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