JOE@FHCRCVAX.BITNET (Joe Meadows) (01/28/88)
>Does anyone have a public access utility to convert sequential files to >direct (random) access file format on the VAX 11/750. (File 11 type.) >(One other than DEC's CONVERT utility or FDL utility.) Chris, Just interested, why don't you want to use CONVERT? I wrote a utility called FILE which doesn't really convert a file, but which modifies the file header, such that VMS will think the file type has been changed. Using this utility you could 'convert' the file from a regular variable length record sequential file to a direct access (fixed, n byte record length) file, however, the file would still contain the original data, including the 2 byte record length, followed by the record and any null padding used to make the next record start on an even byte boundary. I posted this a while back, if you want a copy and can't find it, let me know and I can mail it to you - it's written in C. Cheers, Joe Meadows joe@fhcrcvax.bitnet -------