[Info-vax] VMS process communication

Richard Maher maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 15 22:29:28 EDT 2022


On 16/09/2022 4:35 am, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2022-09-15 06:58:17 +0000, Richard Maher said:
> 
>> If someone can show me an easy way of getting ASCII fils CR/LF into a 
>> GitHub repository I am happy to do it
> 
> I prefer to convert source files and text files to Stream LF files as 
> part of kitting a release, and that particular issue goes alway.
> 
> Mostly.
> 
> Most OpenVMS apps will read Stream LF, but some apps do prefer not to 
> create that file format by default.
> 
> Which means reworking the OpenVMS environment to work around that.
> 
> With some of the available source code control tools, it's possible to 
> convert the sequential file format during check-in, as well as running a 
> pretty-printer on source files.
> 
> It'd be nice if the OpenVMS vGit git client flagged VFC and other 
> ~incompatible file formats or reported and converted those files before 
> upload, but—not having verified this—I'd tend to assume it does not.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Ok. But what tool (that comes standard on the VMS side) do you use? FTP?

And on the Windows client? Filezilla?



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