VMS vs. UNIX file system

Mon Sep 19 11:15:36 AEST 1988

In article <3438 at crash.cts.com>, jeh at crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) wrote:

> I disagree.  I much prefer VMS's variable-length-record text file format
> to Unix's byte-stream.  Why?  Because the Unix byte stream uses perfectly
> legitimate data as a record separator.

In reading the write(2) man page, I somehow completely missed the
discussion of file record separators in unix.
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