[Info-vax] Cross platform copying strategies

[JF Mezei]

Say I have a directory structure which has both text (variable length
records), and various formats of binary images/movies/sounds. (fixed
length, stmlf etc).


>From within VMS,  COPY and BACKUP to the remote NFS server don't seem to
convert the variable length files to unix text files.

I have the MOUNT of the DNFS devides as /SERVER=UNIX and "/STRUCTURE=5".
I was under the impression that VMS would be smart enough to convert
text files back to unix text files when sending a text file over to a
unis system.



>From the OS-X platform, using VMS as NFS server, VMS seems to add junk
to end of files.

FTP would work, but then, I would have to manually extract text files
and then TYPE IMAGE and manually extract binary files. Not exactly
"automated".


So, is ZIP the only truly workable option where ZIP will store all files
properly and I should be able to then FTP a single file in binary mode
and then unpack it on the target system ?

On VMS, is there a way to tell ZIP to take everything in a directory
structure ? Or must one supply the complete line of files to include in
the archive ?