As far as I know, records in PC files are delimited by a carriage
return / linefeed combination.  Some non-standard PC applications
recognise only the CR as the end-of-record marker, but Excel, Access,
etc, recognise the CR/LF as the end-of-record.

Reflection file transfers allow the end-of-record marker to be set as
either CR/LF (default) or just CR - this can be changed in the file
transfer setup or via Reflection scripts/commands.  Also, the
end-of-file marker can be set as Control-Z in the same way.  I don't
know what the standard end-of-file marker is for PC files, but when I
download a CSV (comma or tab separated file) from the HP3000 to my PC
with the Ctrl-Z eof, Excel picks it up as a separate record.

The other thing to think about with file sizes is that the default
for PC files is to have variable length records - ie. trailing blanks
removed.  This is again configurable for Reflection file transfers
from the HP.  When calculating file sizes on the HP, I use:
    filesize (bytes) = ( (record_length + 2) * eof) + 1
2 bytes per record is added for the CR/LF.  I have found this to be
accurate when keeping the file format - ie. fixed-length records on
the HP & PC, or variable-length on both.  Some of my files have to
chopped up into 1.44mb diskette sized chunks when they are being
created on the HP, & using this formula has worked so far.

Greg Chaplin
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