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VMS binary file conversion to dos
Name: brunodb Date: February 23, 2004 at 08:06:05 Pacific OS: VMS on alpha CPU/Ram: risc?
Comment:
Sorry if my question seems stupid, i'm a newb on VMS systems... I need to transfert VMS binary file to a windows environement, but before that, i have to do some conversion on the VMS side... So far i tried to use the edit/fdl command but no luck (may be it's reserved for ASCII format ).What do i need to do or know?Or may there is some programs can do this for me.... thanks
Name: Hakan Andersson (by HakAnd) Date: February 23, 2004 at 11:09:22 Pacific
Reply:
If you need to transfer a binary file between VMS and a PC, use FTP and use IMAGE/BINARY mode.
/Hakan
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Response Number 2
Name: curlsman Date: March 1, 2004 at 13:37:37 Pacific
Reply:
It depends on what is in the file, and what you want to do.
If you need to change the record format, then the CONVERT utility can usually help - http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6027/6027pro_contents.html
The top of the Online Documentation is here – http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os732_index.html
In general, though, if the file is not inherently portable (ASCII and JPG are good examples), then copying a binary from one CPU architecture to another is very unlikely to work as expected.
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