[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-29 kl. 14:35, skrev 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.
> 

Nice that it was fixed! And no, I do not belive in magic... :-)