[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rsfarr$smk$1 at dont-email.me>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl>
writes: 

> > 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.

I don't know how many times I've used SET FILE/ATTR or CONVERT or TECO 
to fix things like this.  I can usually look at the contents, look at 
DIR/FULL, and see what needs to be done if they don't match, but this 
was somehow different.