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From: wh@cxa.daresbury.ac.uk (Bill Purvis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: moving files between VAX and PC
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Date: 5 Sep 89 11:49:48 GMT
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>From article <8908311323.AA03044@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa>, by CARTER@v1.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk:
>  VAX so that i can use it with my vax hosted transputer system. My
>  attempts so far to kermit this file result in a file with the 
>  wrong format which fails to boot. Has anyone encountered this
>  problem? Does anyone know of a solution?


The problem here is that the VAX implementation requires a specific
record structure which does not exist in other implementations. Its
rather messy and I have never been able to reformat a file directly.
I have always ended up converting folded source to `normal' text format
then transferring that. You then have to re-fold the file and compile
on the VAX. Its all because VAX files are stored as records and not as
an arbitrary sequence of bytes.

Bill.

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