[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-05, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 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.

It was the comment about waiting until a Windows system is available that
made me think of text file line endings.

> 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.)

Another point is that many of the Freeware CD items are binary only, no
source.

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