[Info-vax] Looking for NOTES (or a solution to a problem with it)

[Mark Benson]

On Nov 10, 2:00 am, Rob Brown <mylastn... at gmcl.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 at 01:01 -0000, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > These saveset were hopelessly corrupted on the Freeware CD.  They appear
> > to have been ftp'ed in test mode.  I have them on:
>
> >http://www.DECUSlib.com/Freeware/FreewareV70/Notes/VAX/
>
> > but you're not going to be able to use them from there either.
>
> The ones atwww.digiater.nlare OK.  I FTPed NOTES_CSC025.A from
> there in binary mode, changed the block size to 9216, and then
> extracted the files using BACKUP.  Everything is readable and the text
> files look just fine to me.
>
> I thought the ones on my freeware CD were OK.  I'll try to check them
> tomorrow.

Confirmed, worked fine when I pulled it down in Binary mode. Although
confusingly the FTP client in VMS TCP/IP services named it 'FILE.TXT'
on the local disk. Must get around to installing MultiNet!!

Thanks folks :)

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Mark Benson
http://www.DECtec.info