From: bqt@softjar.se   
      
   On 2025-09-04 06:16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 00:38:34 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-09-03 06:20, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Yes they are.   
      
   No, they are not.   
      
   If I write, in my program (pseudocode):   
      
   write("a")   
   write("bc")   
   write("def")   
      
   I would not want, when I read it back, to get:   
      
   ^A ^@  A ^@   
   ^B ^@  B  C   
   ^C ^@  D  E  F ^@   
      
   I didn't write those three control characters, which basically is just   
   the length of each record (and occasionally padding). If I got those,   
   then I'm reading back things I never wrote into the file in the first   
   place. They are not data in the file. They are meta-information about   
   the data.   
      
   That would be a horribly broken idea to get that meta-data when I read   
   the file back.   
      
      Johnny   
      
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