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| 3904.1 | CVTARC | NAVIER::MELLITZ | | Thu Jul 05 1990 09:52 | 3 |
| User CVTARC V filename before down loading to the Amiga.
...rich
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| 3904.2 | CVTARC V filename! | MALMA1::SMEDBERG | | Thu Jul 05 1990 11:08 | 6 |
| ?
User CVTARC V filename!
What does this do to the zoo files? and how does it work?
M.V.H. Johan
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| 3904.3 | | CLO::COBURN | Growing older, but not up... | Thu Jul 05 1990 11:23 | 10 |
| CVTARC V filename converts the file from whatever format it is
currently in (usually Stream_LF) to variable length records. This is
the format that Kermit requires the files to be when downloading.
The CVTARC program opens the input file and creates a new output file
in the proper format and then reads each record from the original and
writes it to the new file doing all the proper buffering that is
needed.
John
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| 3904.4 | Tried <AMIGA.TOOLS>:CVTARC.... | MALMA1::SMEDBERG | | Fri Jul 06 1990 03:53 | 8 |
| But where do i then find this program? "CVTARC.EXE"
So it will work just fine with ZOO files too and not only ARC files
wich i no newer had any problems with!
M.V.H. JohSm
:-/
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| 3904.5 | CVTARC WORKS?!?!?! | MALMA1::SMEDBERG | | Fri Jul 06 1990 07:39 | 33 |
| Now i'm really confused!
I copied this "CVTARC.EXE" to my default directory and tried to
get it done but it dosen't seem to work!
I get thes error message:
$CVTARC V GOMF.ARC GOMF2.ARC
%DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters -reenter command with fewer
/V/ parameters.
$
I have tried diffrent combinations but it still don't work..
($CVTARC U gomf.arc, $CVTARC V GOMF.arc, $CVTARC U : all retuns
the same error message...)
One more thing that i would understand, the problem to down loading
those files is depending on The Record FORMAT:?????
I'v tried to download files with "RECORD FORMAT:512 BYTE RECORDS"
and it seems to work fine! But it dosen't seem's to work with STREAM
format?!.
I'm tried to read in diffrent notes about this but i'v still don't
understand this 'wacko' thing!. (Perhaps ther is some one who has
a dcl .com program that checks all things out before sending files
and so on?!)
Still Needs help!
M.V.H. JohSm
:-(
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| 3904.6 | | CLO::COBURN | Growing older, but not up... | Fri Jul 06 1990 10:05 | 20 |
| You need to define CVTARC as a foreign command as follows:
$ CVTARC :== $SYS$LOGIN:CVTARC
^ This '$' is a required character.
Then
$ CVTARC V oldfilename
The converted file will have the same name but a newer version.
Yes, file downloads with kermit depend on the files record type being
fixed or variable - Kermit doesn't understand StreamLF files and will
mung them every time. The newest VMS CKermit (Kermit written in C)
works OK with STreamLF files but I don't know where the latest version
is located.
John
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| 3904.7 | Docs for ZOO Binary conversions in VMSZOO.DOC | SNOC01::KING | Randall King @SNO Sydney, Aussieland | Mon Sep 17 1990 10:29 | 13 |
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For posterity, "BILF" is supposed to come with the VAX version of
ZOO.EXE to do these conversions, but I havent found it on the nets yet.
There is a full explanatory document about these Stream-LF to Binary
conversions necessary in WJG::AMIGA:VMSZOO.DOC, along with ZOO.EXE
for your use on the VMS end if needed.
I guess CVTARC is just another means to the same end.
Cross reference to Topic 3362 for similar discussion, amongst others.
Randall King @SNO
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