[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rru1jb$gnq$2 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Trying to SET FILE/ATTR to anything that does not match the
> actual file content will usually give weird results.

Right.

> EDT tries to read the file according to the file attribs, not
> according to what the file actually contains.

Right.

> What are the "standard SET FILE/ATTR incarnations"? A secret?

Almost always, SET FILE/ATTR=RFM:<whatever> does the trick.

> You might try a DUMP and see how the records/lines actually are
> terminated and set the file attribs accordingly.

Yes, if a simple fix doesn't work, I'll have to dig deeper.

> I'm sure that you are aware that SET FILE/ATTR of course does not
> change any of the content of the file, right?

Right.

> B.t.w., what does a "damaged" file mean here? Dropped on the floor?
> Is it an original file foreign to VMS?

>From VMS to VMS via the internet, but not a standard problem one 
encounters in such situations.  :-|