| Title: | Digital PATHWORKS 32 |
| Moderator: | SPELNK::curless |
| Created: | Fri Nov 01 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 337 |
| Total number of notes: | 1612 |
Hi, Customer experienced file size changed after a simple drag-and-drop! Anyone have any idea ?? Pls help. Scenerio is: AlphaStation200 4/166 <---> WFW3.11 PC OVMSv6.2 + PWRKv5 PWRKv6.0 Whereas PWRK server stores ASCII files and the PC drag-and-drop into its local directory but file size changed to only 1 byte larger than original. Customer tried drag-and-drop back and forth but sometime files size change but sometime not. Strange! Rgds, :> [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 173.1 | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Wed Mar 19 1997 23:09 | 5 | |
re: NETRIX::"[email protected]" Did a CTRL-Z get added to the file as a terminator? /Bill | |||||
| 173.2 | file size changes if file format is converted | JAMIN::RUZICH | PATHWORKS Client Engineering | Thu Mar 20 1997 09:33 | 38 |
.0>Customer experienced file size changed after a simple drag-and-drop!
.0>Anyone have any idea ?? Pls help.
.0>Whereas PWRK server stores ASCII files and the PC drag-and-drop into its
.0>local directory but file size changed to only 1 byte larger than original.
The size of the file is a matter of how the data is stored on disk.
VMS has seven different record formats.
For example, I just created a file like so on VMS:
$ cre varcc.txt
abcd
efg
^Z
Then I copied the file, converting it to other formats, with convert/fdl=xxx.
Same data, different format on disk. Here's the result, when you look at it
from DOS on a file share:
Volume in drive F is USER2
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000
Directory of F:\TEMP9
03/20/97 09:20a 11 STM.TXT
03/20/97 09:20a 9 STMCR.TXT
03/20/97 09:20a 9 STMLF.TXT
03/20/97 09:19a 12 VARCC.TXT
4 File(s) 41 bytes
3,052,226,560 bytes free
So, if you drag the file to the PC's hard disk, there may be an implicit
conversion, and the number of bytes changes. The data is the same, but
carriage control, byte count, pad byte, etc. may be different in the disk
file.
-Steve
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