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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs



> On May 29, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> No, transfering a whole file is a single stream of stuff; reading individual records is a more complex handshake.  And apart from that, things get significantly simpler if you only support Sequential files.  Simpler still if you limit it to just two cases: fixed:512, and stream.

Alas, that means most text files on VMS won’t be transferred since they are record based.
Can you get EDT or TPU to emit stream files?



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