[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/29/20 9:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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... :-)


And, just so people don't think, based on earlier comments, that
Unix is somehow immune, I frequently have to remove "^M" characters
from text files on Unix. Unix's only saving grace in this regard is
that the solution is trivial.  :-)

bill