apollo@ucbvax.UUCP (11/27/85)
If you use STREAM_$GET_REC to read a 10-character record into a 7-character buffer, it's supposed to set the RETLEN parameter to -3 to let you know that there's more data in the record. It fails to do this if you're running a remote process and reading from standard input; RETLEN is simply set to 7.