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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS C file type and stdio - help!
Message-ID: <20577@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 88 22:32:05 GMT
References: <196@rna.UUCP> <6671@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3689@bsu-cs.UUCP> <618@philmds.UUCP>
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In article <618@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
> 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).
> To convert file types in VMS, use convert ( 8-).

The convert utility does not do what they wanted.
It will expect the input file to have a valid record
structure, which is generally not the case when binary
data is written by C programs. Convert will also "drop" '\n's,
and start a new record. 

What I meant is change the file type in the "file header"
(I forget the correct term, I'm refering to the on-disk
equivalent of the FAB) without changing the file data.