[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

El 14/04/2015, a les 17:25, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> va escriure:
> On 04/14/2015 11:00 AM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
>>> Hey folks.  I'm moving some text files to an RSX system via DECnet 
>>> under Linux.  The files on the RSX system are not readable; I get 
>>> "illegal record size" when trying to type them.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone hit this?  I assume there's a simple solution..
>> 
>> What are the RMS attributes?  (I don’t know how to ask RSX to show
>> those, unfortunately.)  A possible way to get this would be a file
>> with “no-span” records and recordsize > 512.
> 
>  I don't know how to ask RSX for that...I used to be a heavy user of
> RSX, but that was in the 80s; I seem to have forgotten nearly
> everything. :-(
> 

This is basically a wild guess... Have you tried to change the line terminators of your files at the Linux side? Try to convert them to 'DOS' style and see what happens. If the RSX FAL looks for a CR to split the records and it does not find it perhaps the result could be just what you are observing.




>  I have no problem with hitting the books; I'm generally pretty
> self-sufficient in that regard, but I'm about to load these machines
> onto a truck and take them to VCF, so I'm just short of time.  Things
> have gotten a bit less stressful about that since some hardware (not the
> 11/34) has started to behave, and now it looks like some of the machines
> will be on HECnet during the show, so I'll be able to get some software
> on them then.
> 
>             -Dave
> 
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
> New Kensington, PA