| Title: | Shareware for IBM PC and compatibles |
| Notice: | vmsmkt->humane| caldec->trinty| ufrcs1->muccs1 |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN |
| Created: | Mon Oct 15 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3369 |
| Total number of notes: | 24372 |
hi all. I'm doing some test using xmodem between a VAX and a PC. On PC I use KEAterm or SMARTcom like terminal emulator. I make a connection from PC to VAX. When I have logged into VAX, I run xmodem and then from terminal emuletor I start the receiver. I don't have problems if I send text file or binary file (with 512 fixed lenght record format) but I'm not able to send binary file with strem record format. Is this a limit of xmodem or I'm doing an error? Thanks in advance Carlo Longoni SBU Milan ITALY
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| 3359.1 | Ah, the problems of VMS | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Fri Jan 24 1997 12:52 | 15 |
I don't really know for sure ... but I think the problem is how the VAX program reads the 'stream' file. Some programs (and not just Xmodem or Zmodem or Kermit) just have a problem handling stream format files. I get this occasionally in the office too (no terminal emulator involved). Maybe the stream format didn't exist 10 years ago, or was so rarely ever used?? One would think it ought to be possible to write these file transfer programs to recognize stream format files and change how they read the bits; but this doesn't seem to be the case. If you read the Kermit notesfile, there are dozens of questions and answers about corrupt file transfers caused by trying to download a stream file without first converting it to another form. | |||||