OC.PEDHEM@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU ("Christopher Lent") (10/24/86)
Hi, Does anyone have a program or FDL file to convert a Stream_Lf file to a nice normal file so that commands like TYPE FOO.BAR and COPY FOO.BAR TT: will work? Any language would be instructive. Thanks, Chris Lent OC.PEDHEM@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU or ihnp4!allegra!phri!cooper!chris (203) 452-1522 -------
campbell@maynard.UUCP (10/25/86)
In article <12249233250.11.OC.PEDHEM@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU> cooper!chris writes: >Hi, > Does anyone have a program or FDL file to convert a Stream_Lf file to >a nice normal file so that commands like TYPE FOO.BAR and COPY FOO.BAR TT: >will work? Any language would be instructive. You must be running some ancient version of VMS; under (at least) 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4, TYPE works just fine on STMLF files. -- Larry Campbell MCI: LCAMPBELL The Boston Software Works, Inc. UUCP: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu (617) 367-6846
egisin%watmath.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Eric Gisin) (10/25/86)
> Hi, > Does anyone have a program or FDL file to convert a Stream_Lf file to > a nice normal file so that commands like TYPE FOO.BAR and COPY FOO.BAR TT: > will work? Any language would be instructive. > > Thanks, > Chris Lent The only problems I've seen with stream-lf file occur when the file doesn't have a newline as the final character or when a record (delimited by newlines) is too big for the application's buffer. The first case can be checked and fixed with a simple program in C: /* the following return values should be check for errors */ f = fopen(file, "r+w"); fseek(f, -1, 2); /* seek to last byte */ if (getc(f) != '\n') { fprintf(stderr, "Appended \\n\n"); fseek(f, 0, 2); /* seek to EOF */ putc('\n', f); } fclose(f); I haven't tested the above, and seem to recall VAXC IO may have some bugs regarding "r+w" file access. Are there any other problems with stream-lf file created by C? I've used them extensively (on VMS V4). Note the message EDT gives when editing a stream-lf file is just a meaningless warning. Eric Gisin, egisin@math.waterloo.{csnet,edu}
levy@ttrdc.UUCP.UUCP (10/27/86)
In article <8610260459.AA20437@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, egisin%watmath.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Eric Gisin) writes: >Are there any other problems with stream-lf file created by C? >I've used them extensively (on VMS V4). Note the message EDT >gives when editing a stream-lf file is just a meaningless warning. > > Eric Gisin, egisin@math.waterloo.{csnet,edu} In the not too distant past, I remember problems with getting VMS Fortran programs to read stream-lf files put out by VMS C programs (the Fortran code would stack dump). However I just now tried it and it seems to work fine (VMS 4.3, C 2.0, Fortran ???). Maybe something has been fixed or improved since 4.2 (or earlier)? -- ------------------------------- Disclaimer: The views contained herein are | dan levy | yvel nad | my own and are not at all those of my em- | an engihacker @ | ployer or the administrator of any computer | at&t computer systems division | upon which I may hack. | skokie, illinois | -------------------------------- Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, go for it! allegra,ulysses,vax135}!ttrdc!levy
LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA (10/27/86)
Hi,
Does anyone have a program or FDL file to convert a Stream_Lf file to
a nice normal file so that commands like TYPE FOO.BAR and COPY FOO.BAR TT:
will work? Any language would be instructive.
Back in V3 of VMS, STREAM_LF files didn't work correctly through DECnet. Ever
since V4, I have seen no problems with using them with all the usual cast of
programs. Certainly, TYPE and COPY deal with them just fine.
The easiest way to build an FDL file for such a conversion, should you really
want to do it, is simply to do an ANALY/RMS/FDL=xxx on a file with the desired
characteristics! (You might want to edit he result to take out anything like
a pre-extension that you don't want.)
-- Jerry
-------KARNEY%PPC.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA (10/29/86)
This is how I do this:
In my LOGIN.COM file, I define
$ CONV_TO_TEXT == "CONVERT/FDL=EMACS_DIR:VAR"
EMACS_DIR:VAR.FDL contains
*** beginning of VAR.FDL ***
SYSTEM
SOURCE VAX/VMS
FILE
ORGANIZATION sequential
RECORD
BLOCK_SPAN yes
CARRIAGE_CONTROL carriage_return
FORMAT variable
SIZE 0
*** end of VAR.FDL ***
Then
$ CONV_TO_TEXT <input-file> <output-file>
converts <input-file> to a "standard" VAX text file <output-file>.
---Charles Karney
Karney%PPC@LLL-MFE