[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-05, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-09-04, wendellxe at yahoo.com <wendellxe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> BTW, I've been browsing through the OpenVMS Freeware stuff. The files
>> are all in VMS format and I don't have a conversion utility on Linux, so
>> I have to wait until I'm on a Windows machine. There really ought to be
>> a Perl/Python script for this.
>
> ZIP/UNZIP can be used here.  unzip -a  "auto-convert any text files" will
> convert to the line endings of the system you are running on.  If you 
> have access to a VMS system with Apache (aka SWS Secure Web Server), there
> is a DCL procedure which will convert multiple text files to Stream-LF.
> Or someone could make a copy available to you :-)
>

I had got the feeling the OP was wanting to examine existing kits,
written out in VMS specific formats (such as VMS Backup or PCSI), on
a Linux system.

OTOH, I don't know of any tools which allow you to read a VMS specific
file format on Windows but not on Linux. (There's a VMSBACKUP tool
for reading VMS backups on Linux, but I don't know of anything which
allows you to directly read PCSI kits on either Windows or Linux.)

Simon.

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