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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 5041.1 | Use an MSDOS PC for the format | GVA02::SLOAN | we have met the enemy and he is us | Fri Sep 13 1991 04:25 | 12 |
| I actually got MESSYFMT to work and format a disk, but when I tried to
read it using PCDISK on a VAXstation I had problems with the file
transfers.
Nowadays I format my MSDOS disks on an MSDOS PC and that way I have no
trouble at either end. Once you've formatted one, you can use any of
the available copiers to replicate the disk including its format.
Regards
Steven
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| 5041.2 | Very Messy... | NZOMIS::VETTE | Sheep are natural blondes | Fri Sep 13 1991 18:24 | 5 |
| Steven,
Thanks. I'll give that a whirl on Moanday at work.
Lindsay
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| 5041.3 | other progs messup Messydos | CGOOA::LEMOINE | | Fri Sep 13 1991 19:20 | 12 |
| Hi
I would like to interject, I have used MSH extensively and found
that it would blowup if you had any programs that interfere with the
trackdisk device ie. TRACKSALVE or possibly even VIRUS checkers that
automatically check a disk when inserted. Too many programs playing
around with the disk.
Turn off any special disk programs, MSH and MessyFMT should work fine
I was running with dos 1.3.3, I couldn't tell you how well MSH works
with the Various flavours of DOS 2.XXX.
Regards John Lemoine Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| 5041.4 | Other emulations messup MessyDOS | CSSE32::SMITH | Reality, just a visible imagination? | Fri Sep 13 1991 20:53 | 9 |
| re: -1
I run TRACKSALVE, VIRUSX and MSH and never have a problem reading a
disk CREATED on an IBM/Clone system. Reading disks created on a
VAXstation running SoftPC or PCdisk is another story. I have only had
marginal success with it. Perhaps too many emulations. ;')
...Ed
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| 5041.5 | Try the IBeM Demmo and MSDOS Format | CX3PT3::WSC017::A_ANDERSON | CSC32::A_Anderson NSU/VAX DTN 592-4170 | Sun Sep 15 1991 16:42 | 16 |
| I have not used MSH that much since I have Cross Dos. But I
occasionally have a problem formatting with Cross Dos's Mformat
command. Usually this is on previously used floppies. But I have
found out that once I got a bootable 720K Msdos Floppy I downloaded the
IBem Demmo and the Standard MSDOS Format command worked every time.
Its still using Cross Dos but with the IBeM software driving it. I
have not had an oportunity to try it on Soft PC but My Bridge Board
likes it on a 5.25 inch 720K format. I do not have an external
3.5 inch floppy to test with the Bridge Board.
Alan
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| 5041.6 | Omnidirectional MSH | NZOMIS::VETTE | Sheep are natural blondes | Tue Sep 17 1991 03:02 | 16 |
| I now have MSH working, but only in one direction (PC - AMIGA).
I went with the setup as per the destructions, just one device, called
MSH, and the filesystem as MessyFileSystem. I was even able MessyFmt a
disk in the end. I can copy stuff from my VAX account on to both a MSH
formatted and a MS-DOS formatted disk, and read them just fine on the
AMIGA.
I can't read a LZH archive on the VAX that I copied from the AMIGA
though, loads of CRC errors.
Anyone got any clues about this?
Thanks,
Lindsay_Clueless
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| 5041.7 | | TRUCKS::BUSSINK_E | Don't Ask, I Didn't | Tue Sep 17 1991 06:03 | 10 |
| >I can't read a LZH archive on the VAX that I copied from the AMIGA
>though, loads of CRC errors.
>
>Anyone got any clues about this?
A classic problem, try to
CVTARC U <file>.lzh
on the VAX.
Erik
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| 5041.8 | CVTARC not the answer. | NZOMIS::VETTE | Sheep are natural blondes | Tue Sep 17 1991 20:33 | 36 |
| Thanks Erik, but I've been there, done that already ;-(
This is what I get from the file before I CVTARC U it:
NZOV03::Lindsay> lharc v VCHK526
SIZE RATIO STAMP NAME
------- ------ ------------ --------------------
34882 42.1% Jul 29 18:32 Virus_Checker.doc
LHARC Warning: Checksum error (LHarc file?)a
-272205401 -6.2% Nov 14 18:24 +%�wѣ�{
��c~�#-lh1-�.
LHARC Warning: Checksum error (LHarc file?)a
LHARC Warning: Unknown header (LHarc file ?)
------- ------ ------------ --------------------
-272170519 -6.2% Sep 18 10:29 2 files
This is what I get afterwards, minus 3 files. The archive was reduced
by CVTARC from 56 blocks to 3.
NZOV03::Lindsay> lharc v z
SIZE RATIO STAMP NAME
------- ------ ------------ --------------------
34882 42.1% Jul 29 18:32 Virus_Checker.doc
------- ------ ------------ --------------------
34882 42.1% Sep 18 11:28 1 file
Too weird for me. Thankfully most of my file transfer requirements are
for the other direction.
Lindsay
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| 5041.9 | try this | MACNAS::COLLINS | STEVE | Wed Sep 18 1991 04:54 | 10 |
|
if your trnsferring the file with PCDISK try the following in pcdisk
pcdisk> export/format=fixed flename
then cvtarc u filename under vms.
Steve..
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| 5041.10 | Simpler solution to file attribute problem....? | CVG::PETTENGILL | mulp | Thu Sep 19 1991 22:28 | 12 |
| As I understand the problem from my experience, some programs like KERMIT
get confused by the Stream_LF attributes that some C programs leave on binary
files (and CVTARC fixes that?). In the TOOLSHED is a program called FILESET
which allows you to set any arbitrary file attributes on a file; I've used
it on files that I hadn't otherwise been able to download.
I can easily copy it to EOT, but I'd better write something up first so
that its less likely to cause confusion.
For anyone who is working on various C programs that are used to pack or
unpack or upload or download who doesn't know what to do to make this hack
unnecessary, send me a note. I hate C, but I do know file system stuff.
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