91_BICKINGD@UNION.BITNET (A.N.A.R.C.H.Y.) (02/05/90)
From: Bob Fillmore <FILLMORE@EMRCAN.BITNET> >Here is a procedure for all you Amiga people using BITFTP to get ZOO files >into a VAX/VMS system. The basic problem is that RECEIVE/BINARY puts the >wrong carriage control attribute on the file. If you then try to use ZOO >on it ZOO will complain. (procedure deleted) Actually, the problem is easier to solve than that. The current version (2.01 is what I have) of zoo comes with a program called BILF. The VMS environment has only one format for storing files: it is a variable-length format (uncompatible with any image/binary format, really) and any zoo archive made on a VMS system has to be converted (and vice-versa). This is the ONLY time I have had any problem between VMS and any other system. bilf converts the format back and forth between all other systems and VMS (talk about a brain-damaged OS - that's VMS). Remember, as well, that Kermit is a brain-dead transfer protocol. I'd use Xmodem over Kermit! If anyone knows the procedure to post a program to Amiga-s, please tell me. I can post the VMS/Unix source to Zmodem (the BEST protocol, even though the VMS version is crippled due to the VMS environment) >________________________ >Bob Fillmore, Systems Software & Communications BITNET: FILLMORE@EMRCAN -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- #DEFINE std.disclaimers "A.N.A.R.C.H.Y. : it isn't a belief, it's a way of life!" \ / Single-Tasking????? Dave Bicking * (0 o) * Just Union College Box 152 | say Schenectady, NY 12308 |-@-| NO!!! // 91_bickingd@union.bitnet \X/ Amiga 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-