info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (10/25/84)
From: *Hobbit* <AWalker@RUTGERS.ARPA> We have just gotten the TWG TCP stuff working on our 780 [hoorayy!!]. The primary problem turned out to be a DOA Interlan board... Anyway, while hacking around, I noticed that a lot of the man files are constructed of lines of text separated by linefeeds [a la Unix, where of course they came from in the first place]. Kind of confusing to type out without a man processor that knows this. The *other* thing, is that any filename that is legal under Unix [something like inet-config.txt, which is over 9 chars in FN1 and has the "-"] and is illegal under VMS gets translated to something like HSH0EERQ1.HSN. There is evidently some tranlation algorithm whereby the bogus filename is hidden in the encoding of this new name, and presumably some Eunice routine that can unpack it again. How exactly does this work? Is there extant a shell that runs under VMS/Eunice that will show you the ''real'' filename and deal with it that way? Is there a simple reversal process to find out the original filename? This Eunice stuff looks like a teetery column of kludges, that should have all fallen down long ago and convinced us to run Unix in the first place... _H* -------
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (10/25/84)
From: DAVID DRAKE <drake@pax> We here at the Naval Air Test Center are running TWG's TCP programs on our 730. The problem mentioned about the .HSH files is easily solved by looking for a corresponding .HSN file. One will have the original file name (I think it is .HSH) and the other will have the file contents (I think it is .HSN). As to your problem of the files in UNIX format, there is a programcalled UNIXTOVMS that will convert the files for you. If you set up a symbol as: $ CONVERT :== $DQA0:[NETDIST.ETC]UNIXTOVMS UNIXTOVMS you can then enter a command like: $ CONVERT File-name This will create a new version of the file File-name in the VMS format. Also, on the convert command you cannot use version numbers. If you need help just drop me a mail message at VEDA@PAXRV-NES. Address the message to me, PHIL THAYER. Phil Thayer ARPA: VEDA@PAXRV-NES ------