David J Dachtera wrote:
RMS Sequential Variable files produced on VMS cannot be read as expected by
Windows programs. They expect <CR><LF> pairs to be embedded in the data, and
they aren't there. The "Record Attributes" are meaningless here (no
extraneous data is retieved from/written to the file).
In order to be readable by Windows programs, files on VMS must have RMS
attributes showing a record format of Stream or Stream_LF.
In addition to having record attributes showing a format of Stream,
it must actually be in stream format, i.e. it must actually contain
the <CR><LF> between each line. So it doesn't do any good to just
$ set file/attributes=rfm=STM,
you need to convert the file to stream (or create it that way in the
first place.) The easiest way to do that is to use convert/fdl with
a .fdl file specifying (from TCPWARE:STREAMCRLF.FDL):
IDENT "28-OCT-1991 13:22:18 VAX-11 FDL Editor"
SYSTEM
SOURCE VAX/VMS
FILE
BEST_TRY_CONTIGUOUS no
CONTIGUOUS no
NAME ""
ORGANIZATION sequential
RECORD
BLOCK_SPAN yes
CARRIAGE_CONTROL carriage_return
FORMAT stream
SIZE 0
(Example .FDL file courtesy TCPware. There's no copyright in it, so
I assume I can post it here.)
On the other hand, it *might* be possible to get coerce the Samba
server into converting Seq Var files to Stream on the fly, much as
the POP, IMAP, FTP, NFS and Apache 2.1 servers do. I've messed
around a little with Samba, but am certainly not an expert...
Does anyone else know for sure if this is possible.
David J Dachtera
DJE Systems
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Subject: Record format
We have recently installed Samba on VMS (Itanium).
We have problems in reading text-files produced on VMS. The CR/LF does not
work. The data stream appears in a long line.
The file attributes on VMS are:
Record format: Variable length, maximum 0 bytes, longest 75 bytes
Record attributes: Carriage return carriage control
Do I have to change these attributes or is there anything to do in the
SMB.CONF file?
RG Rolf
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