From: bqt@softjar.se   
      
   On 2025-09-05 02:24, 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.   
   >   
   > All the trouble happens on the VMS side.   
      
   Because you assume that ftp binary mode somehow should make sense   
   between different types of systems, which it explicitly is not.   
   binary mode in ftp is, at the most optimistic, a way to hopefully get   
   all the actual content across. It has no way to deal with meta-data   
   information. ftp basically never was a universal tool to transfer   
   arbitrary files between arbitrary systems and somehow make that just   
   work. Implementers of ftp actually then have to choose what to do, and   
   how to make it work "best" (for some arbitrary definition of "best") on   
   the system where they implemented it.   
   If the underlying systems are not compatible, then there will be cases   
   and situations where things will not work. There is no way around that.   
      
   Your assumptions and wishes are more just showing the lack of   
   understanding of the problem.   
      
      Johnny   
      
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