wh@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk (Bill Purvis) (09/05/89)
>From article <8908311323.AA03044@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa>, by CARTER@v1.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk: > VAX so that i can use it with my vax hosted transputer system. My > attempts so far to kermit this file result in a file with the > wrong format which fails to boot. Has anyone encountered this > problem? Does anyone know of a solution? The problem here is that the VAX implementation requires a specific record structure which does not exist in other implementations. Its rather messy and I have never been able to reformat a file directly. I have always ended up converting folded source to `normal' text format then transferring that. You then have to re-fold the file and compile on the VAX. Its all because VAX files are stored as records and not as an arbitrary sequence of bytes. Bill. ============================================================= Bill Purvis !! wh@uk.ac.dl.cxa Daresbury Lab !! Warrington !! Cheshire !! 0925 603357 ==============================================================
drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (David R. Linn) (09/05/89)
Actually, VMS does support a byte stream file now: Stream-LF. If you can convert your folded files to this format on the VAX, you may have better luck with the transfer.