[Info-vax] difference in files being copied by scp from Unix to VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <da3d2ec1-a7be-464a-a80f-3f4fe63bdaa5 at r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, Sumir <sumirmehta at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I am using scp to copy the file from VMS box to Solaris box, and again
> scp to copy the file back. It is a text file with some data.
> The difference observed by the diff command is as below --
> 
> ************
> File 1
> ******
> File 2
>   571
> ************

   Try a directory/full on the original and the results and let us know
   what you get.  When doing binary copies utilities written for VMS
   tend to store the results as fixed length 512 byte records, which
   could make the result look like it's got some nulls at the end.