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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: Unformatted data transfer..
Message-ID: <6363@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 15:30:48 GMT
References: <9171@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In article <9171@helios.TAMU.EDU> suray@cs.tamu.edu (Subhankar Ray) writes:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Here is a test program, where I was generating a file on YMP, named 
>ibm( good for IBM) and then I moved it to IBM (under 
>MVS/os) using   binary ftp. But when I was trying to make an 
>unformatted read on IBM, it was
>giving end of record ( or end of file depending on the recfm and lrecl 
>modified by IEBGENER). Am I missing something ?

No doubt differences in IBM and Cray control information are causing the
problem. If you give IEBGENER RECFM=U, it should be able to read just
about anything. It will regard control info as just more data. U stands
for undefined. Some time ago, perhaps still, unformatted IBM FORTRAN
files had to be VBS, which means variable blocked spanned. Using IEBGENER
to copy the file from RECFM=U to VBS will give you a file that you can
examine with IBM FORTRAN and convert to something useful.

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Mike    hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"Got any grim reapers?" -- Norm