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From: JOE@FHCRCVAX.BITNET (Joe Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Convertion of sequential files.
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Date: 27 Jan 88 20:09:00 GMT
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>Does anyone have a public access utility to convert sequential files to
>direct (random) access file format on the VAX 11/750.  (File 11 type.)
>(One other than DEC's CONVERT utility or FDL utility.)

Chris,
        Just interested, why don't you want to use CONVERT?
I wrote a utility called FILE which doesn't really convert
a file, but which modifies the file header, such that VMS
will think the file type has been changed. Using this utility
you could 'convert' the file from a regular variable length
record sequential file to a direct access (fixed, n byte record length)
file, however, the file would still contain the original data, including
the 2 byte record length, followed by the record and any null padding used
to make the next record start on an even byte boundary.

        I posted this a while back, if you want a copy and can't find
it, let me know and I can mail it to you - it's written in C.


        Cheers,
        Joe Meadows     joe@fhcrcvax.bitnet

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