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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Reading variable-length records from a file
Date: 13 Aug 2001 17:41:27 -0500
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In article <mailman.997738222.22248.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Gautier Write-only-address" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen:
> 
>>Does ZIP have a notion of text files ?
> 
> Yes. Anyway you can force the unzipping as a text,
> on the target system.

For the case at hand, though, the decision must be made when the
zipping is done, on the sending system.  No user interaction is
required as the file on the VMS system clearly indicates its
format.