[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Henry Crun]

On 23/12/2020 11:44, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.  :-
I have solved similar problems using the TPU LEARN and REPEAT commands
(om files of several hundred thousand lines...)

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