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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Wed Apr 29 09:28:24 EDT 2009


In article <000385a0$0$2628$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

   Oh, I missed that!

   In that case the OP just needs to use the /ASCII flag he showed us
   on the scp command he has.  He is not transfering a binary file and
   should not treat the file as binary.




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