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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS C file type and stdio - help!
Message-ID: <618@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 13:14:48 GMT
References: <196@rna.UUCP> <6671@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3689@bsu-cs.UUCP> <20448@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <20448@watmath.waterloo.edu> egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin) writes:
|You can create the file in C as a stream-LF file,
|then change the file type to binary stream (UDF, no record attribute).
|Kermit will be able to handle UDF files unless it goes
|out of its way to disallow them.
|I haven't programmed VMS in a long time, but I think
|changing file types is done with an undocumented RMS function,
|or with a disk ACP QIO function. (I don't have access to manuals)

To convert file types in VMS, use convert ( 8-).
From a program the convert utility is a three-stage rocket:
	conv$pass_files(),
	conv$pass_options(),
	conv$convert().
Consult your manuals for the correct parameters.

                   Leo.