John Burke <[log in to unmask]>:

> I feel your pain. However, /APACHE/PUB/httpd.conf is a bytestream file and
> therefore cannot be worked on with EDITOR, symbolic link or no symbolic
> link. Generally, it is a bad idea to change bytestream files to MPE-type
> files and expect the application, in this case Apache/iX, to act as if
> nothing had changed.

EDITOR.PUB.SYS will read byte stream files.  It will write them out as
variable-record files, though.  I would not expect there to be any problems
with Apache reading them.  I have had almost no problems with POSIX programs
reading plain text files of any sort, bytestream, fixed or variable.  As
long as the program is going to only read it, not write to it or try to seek
to a specific place in the file, there shouldn't be a problem.

Just remember that the files must be unnumbered.

The /bin/join is an example of a program that seeks on its input files.
Also, /bin/diff does, and so you can only use it on bytestream files.  The
GNU version of diff does not use seek(), so you can use it on other kinds of
files.

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