[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Simon Clubley]

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

If that's the problem then, apart from your unzip solution, suitable
tools do exist under Linux in the form of the unix2dos and dos2unix
tools.

However, I _strongly_ recommend anyone wanting to use these tools to
read the man pages for them first so they don't accidentally clobber
their files.

Simon.

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