On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:37:59 -0500, Paul Edwards wrote: > >> I agree with Binyamin - XMIT format (aka NETDATA format, also transportable >> to VM systems) is fixed-length, > What's important is not fixed-length, but that the data may be regarded as a featureless binary stream.
>Being fixed length isn't a selling point to me. zip files aren't >fixed length either. It's actually a non-selling point. > >You can consider that I have a rival format for XMIT (rightly >or wrongly, and I acknowledge in advance that most people >will probably say "wrongly"). > What's important is that utilities in the base system, not additional FOSS, support the data format. At 3.8: o NETDATA? -Load modules - Program objects? o Terse? o zip? >> no RDW's needed, > ... >It is the RDWs that I add (or ftp adds) that I consider to be simple. > Use FTP BINARY. Otherwise x'0D0A' appearing by hapenstance in binary data will generate spurious RDWs. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
