sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki) (10/31/86)
The current fix to GNU Emacs to avoid a bug in the C RTL is to use stream_lf files instead of normal carriage_return files. Recently, I found two reasons why this is not a good thing. The first is simple, if you are doing any work at all using the RSX AME (I have been doing RSX-11s and DECNET-11s sysgens) you have to convert the files from stream_lf to normal. Otherwise, none of the RSX utilities (with the exception of TECO) can read the files. The second reason is interesting and points out a bug somewhere in VMS. If you create a file in stream_lf with no lf as the last character in the last record and you pass the file through the PL/1 compiler, RMS does a bugcheck and blows the process away. ---------------- Marty Sasaki uucp: harvard!sasaki Strategic Information arpa: sasaki@harvard.harvard.edu 80 Blanchard Road bitnet: sasaki@harvunxh Burlington, MA 01803 phone: 617-273-5500