[Info-vax] Cross platform copying strategies

[Bob Koehler]

In article <000ccffb$0$2123$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

   If you're serving NFS to VMS shouldn't the result looks like a
   store of VMS files as much as possible?

> 
> 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.

   VMS mature, yes.  UCX (HP TCP/IP Services), no.  It's always been a
   second rate implementation.

> 
> 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 ?

   I suspect there are multiple implementations of ZIP for VMS out
   there, but the one I have honors recursive zips.  The syntax,
   however, is a bit bizzar and it usually takes me a couple of
   attempts to get it right.