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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2018-02-01, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Lionel Draghi" <lionel.draghi@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:7f5fec97-6ae6-4833-87df-77aac5a8e4ff@googlegroups.com...
> ...
>>You missed my point, I don't want to limit vendors possibilities to Windows 
>>and Unix.
>>Defining a function, and let vendors specify what is returned on each 
>>platform would
>>be an acceptable choice (and almost as easy to implement than the useless 
>>System_Name).
>
> What would such a function return on OpenVMS, which does not use a character 
> to mark New_Line??
>

It's optional on VMS.

Records in a file can come with or without line terminators on VMS.

If you do have a line terminator, you can have files in various
formats including records terminated with CR and LF or just LF.
IOW, the only way you know on VMS is to look at the RMS attributes
for a specific file.

Simon.

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