[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Dirk Munk]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rsdmdq$lgd$1 at dont-email.me>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl>
> writes:
> 
>> You can try the following:
>> 1. Convert the file to a stream-lf file.
>> 2. Set the attributes of the resulting file to stream cr-lf.
>> 3. Convert the file again to a stream-lf file, it will replace all the
>> cr-lf record seperators to lf seperators.
>> 4. Convert the file to any filetype you like, with some luck all the
>> blank lines will have disappeared.
> 
> I tried for about 45 minutes---all the suggestions posted here!  It was
> about 100 MB, so not all were quick to check.
> 
> In the end, I managed to transfer it again (don't ask!) and somehow,
> magically, it was OK.
> 
I've dealt with problems like these before, usually caused by 
applications that were not written for VMS.

You need to have a bit of a feeling for the different file types of VMS 
to fix these problems, but if you have that, it's very simple to solve 
these little puzzles.