Re: Text file type hint proposal for filexfer

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

>> Your impression is correct.  Many text files on VMS do not store the
>> line break sequence.
> Is it possible for a VMS application (in particular, an sftp server
> on VMS), to reliably figure out wether or not given file is a "text
> file" using this record format, or a binary file (whatever that means
> on VMS)?

Yes.

Or at least, it was back when I used VMS (>10 years ago).  I would
assume that things haven't changed that much, but that's an assumption.

It would mean VMS-specific code in the daemon, of course.

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