Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:8815 comp.unix.wizards:11259 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system Message-ID: <8547@smoke.ARPA> Date: 20 Sep 88 21:11:14 GMT References: <3954@enea.se> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 35 In article <3954@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes: >In practice this mean writing an LF in the middle of a text line is >impossible in Unix, while is quite OK in VMS. On the other hand, what is a "text line" that occupies portions of multiple lines on a display device? Change "text line" to "text record" and the concept makes more sense, but then why is text necessarily organized into records, and why do these records look like they do instead of something like x T aps x res 723 1 1 x init x font 1 R x font 2 I x font 3 B x font 4 H x font 5 CW x font 6 S x font 7 S1 x font 8 GR V0 p1 s10 f1 H696 V480 h2075c- 35 33152 33-n120 0 H696 V960 cT 67h54i28sw71i28sw71a50nw86e45x50a50m82p52l28e45.n120 0 x trailer V7953 x stop