[Info-vax] scp or sftp: file is "raw", needs to be parsed - possible to work around that?

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed May 19 13:18:17 EDT 2021


On 2021-05-19, Gregory Reut <gregory.reut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thank you for replying!
> It's an backup saveset,created with BACKUP/IMAGE command from a DKA device, so I'd guess it's a sequential file. I eould give it a try with the stream if I'd know how to do that :) At least I can experiment on much shorter files (restore them on the target VMS system).
>

Now I know that, I suggest you follow the recommendations from other
posters to use ZIP, with the VMS attributes encoding option enabled,
to transfer the saveset. Converting the saveset to Stream LF is not
a suitable approach.

Simon.

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