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Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?
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In article <slrnasnoqd.86o.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
>> Bj rn Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> wrote in message news:<20021108010337.395c1a90.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>...
>>> I don't think Text_IO's design is a problem in itself. It can be 
>>> quite useful when working with text files. 
>> 
>> Actually, I do think so. It is quite possible to create "text files"
>> in an editor that don't have a line terminator on the last line.
> 
> Do you mean that the last line of text does not have a line terminator
> or that there isn't an empty line only containing a line terminator?

Such a distinction would result from having a "line terminator" as an
embedded character rather than an out-of-band characteristic of the
file.  VMS does not have that problem with line breaks, but it _does_
have that problem with page breaks, as inserting an in-band character
is the only method VMS provides for indicating a page break.

Does anybody know how AS/400 or MVS handle this sort of thing ?