From: bqt@softjar.se   
      
   On 2025-09-03 06:20, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 20:35:54 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >   
   >> If you create a RFM VAR file on VMS with:   
   >>   
   >> A   
   >> BB   
   >> CCC   
   >>   
   >> then it is stored as:   
   >>   
   >> 01 00 41 00   
   >> 02 00 42 42   
   >> 03 00 43 43 43 00   
   >>   
   >> When you do a binary FTP to Linux you end up with just 6 bytes:   
   >>   
   >> 41 42 42 43 43 43   
   >   
   > That’s stupid. I would describe that as a bug in the VMS FTP program.   
      
   Really? The length bytes are not actually any data in the file. Same   
   with padding. I would say it would be a very bad bug to actually include   
   them.   
      
   >> With a binary FTP from VMS of a VAR file you get just the data bytes   
   >> with no structure defining bytes at all.   
   >   
   > And here I thought “binary” meant “transfer all the bytes in the file   
   as   
   > is” ...   
      
   And it does. All the bytes of the file. Not all the metadata that exists   
   outside of the data content.   
      
      Johnny   
      
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