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Conference lassie::ucx

Title:DEC TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Notice:Note 2-SSB Kits, 3-FT Kits, 4-Patch Info, 7-QAR System
Moderator:ucxaxp.ucx.lkg.dec.com::TIBBERT
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5568
Total number of notes:21492

5415.0. "How to transfer .DDIF files between VMS and UNIX ??" by ASHAM::H_ANDERSSON () Sun Apr 06 1997 07:43

    
    Hi there,
    
    I don't know if this subject has been discussed before.......
    
    A customer has problems transfer .DDIF files between VMS and
    UNIX. After the transfer the files are empty. He uses both
    FTP and RCP. I found the way to transfer files using FTP.
    
    FTP> PUT/RAW file.ddif
    
    But....how do I get RCP, COPY/RCP or COPY/FTP to work ???
    
    Thanks,
    
    /Hakan Andersson, CSC, Sweden
    
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5415.1good questionLASSIE::CORENZWITstuck in postcrypt queueMon Apr 07 1997 09:4711
    I don't think you can do this without some special purpose utility that
    understands DDIF.
    
    On OpenVMS there is DDIF metadata stored in application ACEs.  On UNIX
    I don't think there is any application-specific extension possible in a
    file header, so the same metadata must be in the body of the file.  If
    there were a header extension in UNIX, you would still need something
    that understands how to transfer the metadata to it from the VMS
    application ACEs.
    
    Julie
5415.2LGP30::FLEISCHERwithout vision the people perish (DTN 381-0426 ZKO1-1)Wed Apr 16 1997 17:4514
re Note 5415.0 by ASHAM::H_ANDERSSON:

        I find that some DDIF applications on (DECwrite, for example)
        don't seem to care whether the DDIF semantic tag is set on
        the file or not.  For DECwrite files that I want to transfer
        to DECwrite for Windows, I just set file/nosemantics -- I
        don't know whether this works for other DDIF files and
        applications.

        It would really be nice if tools such as UCX file transfer
        mechanisms would simply treat files with DDIF stored
        semantics as binary blocks.

        Bob
5415.3LASSIE::GEMIGNANITue Apr 22 1997 12:221
    Does COPY /FTP /BINARY .not. work?