[Info-vax] Streaming a File on OpenVMS with Caché

[Steven Schweda]

> [...]  I'd look at a solution that FTP's ZIP'ed files
> between the system. That is a reasoanle safe way to keep
> file organisation intact. UNZIP also has some options
> that can adjust CR/LF on the fly, if needed.

   Info-ZIP Zip has "-l" and "-ll".  UnZip has "-a" and
"-aa", and, on VMS, "-S".  But plain-old FTP has ASCII mode,
and, for a text file, that's usually good enough (especially
if TCPIP$FTP_STREAMLF is defined on a VMS server), and it
might also require less of the remote users.

> [...] In the particular case in this thread there isn't
> realy enough information to be able to give a complete
> solution. [...]

   Too true.