[Info-vax] SFF problem with VSI on Integrity?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-08-06, Richard Jordan <usenet at cropcircledogs.com> wrote:
> I have contacted VSI but thought I'd ask here too.  If anyone can give 
> this a try and let me know if they experience the problem I'd appreciate 
> knowing.
>
> Integrity server, VMS V8.4-2L1, TCPIP V5.7 eco 5 with any later hotfixes 
> as of June 2023 applied.
>
> V8.4-2L3 is coming but I can't install it to check for a while.
>
> We use the 'sendmail.com' freeware to send email with binary attachments 
> (mostly PDFs) with customized SMTP headers.  On this VSI system we get a 
> single error every time we run SFF from the command procedure.
>
> Exact same procedure on a V8.3 Alpha and an HP V8.4 Integrity run 
> without error so we're tentatively calling it a VSI issue.
>
> Every run using symbol form via
>
>       sff :== $SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE
>
> (as defined within sendmail.com)
>
> generates the following error, but also still creates the email 
> successfully:
>
>       %LIB-F-INVNBDS, invalid numeric byte data string
>

Given that your email gets sent, I am surprised nobody has mentioned
the possibility that this is simply a bogus/uninitialised exit status.

If you get the numeric exit status and display it in hex, does the
bit pattern contain anything of interest ?

It could be something x86-64 specific or it could be something that
has always been there and on other architectures just happens to give
a success exit status.

Simon.

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