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

[Gregory Reut]

Hi Arne,

Unfortunately I didn't find any way to force scp to skip the parsing yet. 
Regarding slicing the file - I'd definitely do that if I know how to do it :) Would you have a hint for me?

(By the way, thank you for the code parsing SAS files. I've used it to write a small python script to tread the files, it worked well. I'll post the scrip if anybody would be interested).

Best regards,
Greg


On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 2:38:39 PM UTC+2, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/19/2021 7:29 AM, Gregory Reut wrote: 
> > Trying to scp a very large file off an Alpha VMS 8.3 system. Larger the file, longer it takes to start the transfer. This scp message in verbose mode gives a clue: 
> > SCP Source file is "raw", and it needs to be parsed 
> > 
> > Parsing a 20GB file takes longer than a standard scp timeout. and I need to scp files 10 times larger. 
> > Perhaps there is a way to skip the parsing?
> I think there should be an option: 
> 
> SCP /JUST_COPY_THE_BYTES_PLEASE ... ... 
> 
> but in case there is not then maybe cut it into smaller chunks 
> like 2 GB at source system and combine back at target 
> system. 
> 
> Arne