There is an inherent problem in creating an ASCII-stream log file of
   terminal output, whether it is created by PEEK/LOG, SET HOST/LOG or
   KERMIT's LOG SESSION command, etc.

   The problem is that records in a stream output file either have an
   arbitrary length (as do those made by KERMIT) or no maximum length
   at all. In the case where an arbitrary length is imposed on the log
   file, you will see extra carriage-returns embedded in the file when
   it is typed. In the case of PEEK, which does NOT arbitrarily end a
   line after 256 bytes (or some such size), the TYPE command, EDT,
   TPU, etc., all have varying degrees of success in displaying the
   file's contents.

   VMS's TYPE command will usually abort if you attempt to type a
   file which has records longer than 2048 bytes. EDT and TPU have
   similar record-length limitations.

   Thus we have added a format command which will process an arbitrary
   sequence of text and escape and control sequences into a series of
   output screens.