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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:49:08 -0400, James Kuyper
<jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

> On 7/15/24 18:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
[silliness]
> Keep in mind that, in text mode, the <stdio.h> library routines use '\n'
> in memory to represent whatever platform-specific method is used in
> files to indicate a new line. For example, that can be a simple '\n' on
> typical Unix-like machines, '\n\r' or '\r\n' on other operating systems,
> and on a number of older systems, it could be converted to and from a
> fixed-size block with a character count at the the beginning of the
> block. There's no requirement that it be the Unicode line feed character.

I never knew any older system that used a fixed-size block (or rather
record, which in those days was not the same as block) AND prefix
count in the same file, although OS/360 et seq used ONE of them.

And Tandem Enscribe used either offset or count fields (depending on
structure) at _end_ of block, near but not adjacent to records, except
for textfiles had prefix counts per line AND word (of nonblanks) --
but the initial versions of their C implementation couldn't handle
textfiles, so you had to convert them to and from 'data'.