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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice
Subject: vms format files and unix format files
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 21:18:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 21:18:36 1987
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 I have been playing around with rrn on Eunice these days and have
 notice some interesting (read: very frustrating and maddening )
 features of Eunice.

 It seems to make a difference in what format a file is. There are
 two formats, at least, unix and VMS. Now I had gotten rrn working
 as for as being able to read news and postnews remotely, but I 
 could not save the articles that I wanted to. It said it saved it
 and then I looked in the directory. Nothing there. Well I realize
 that Eunice has problems returning error coders of forked processes
 and such. But lying about what it is doing is another story.

 The problem was that the "mbox.saver" shell script was in Unix format.
 I changed it to VMS format and viola it worked. Before doing this 
 I noticed that the script when called from csh would fault with 
 the typical VMS error code "Error in Activation" or something like
 that. But when I ran it through sh on the command line it worked.
 After changing it to VMS format it worked on the command line without
 the sh.

 Does anybody have an explanation for this ????

 Yes I use Eunice. Do You ?
 mark

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