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

[JF Mezei]

Bob Koehler wrote:

>    It is, of course, possible to fix the file after receipt, just not
>    typically necessary to do so.  RMS keeps a value in the file header
>    which locates the last data byte in the last disk block; or the
>    file can be rewritten in a different format.

This is a STREAMLF file. And the "last data byte" is different in the
received file than in the original flag.

If the second file had a last byte offset of 512 bytes (or perhaps 511)
or 0 bytes, I could see that the receiving software didn't bother to set
the real end of file and just write the last block of 512 bytes.

But in this chap's case, the software does set some end of file (if I
recall, it was at 340 bytes istead of about 160).