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   Re: Binutils   
   04 Sep 25 20:28:24   
   
   From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 9/4/2025 8:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 19:55:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> And not handling VMS RMS VAR, VMS RMS VFC, NOS variable length files,   
   >> NOS/VE variable length files, whatever fun stuff IBM mainframes may have   
   >> etc..   
   >   
   > We don’t care about those here. We care about VMS OBJ format, which is (or   
   > should be) easy to transfer to *nix platforms and work on there and even   
   > generate on there, not so easy to transfer back to VMS.   
      
   I think he got the transfer working both ways with a little   
   ingenuity.   
      
   But it is not the use case VMS FTP was designed for.   
      
   Arne   
      
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