[HECnet] Looking for systems to test against...

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Apr 23, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

...
Indeed, the quota was the problem. Works now. Excellent! Cool. However, RSTS/E did not present the kind of attributes on text files that I would have thought.

Native RSTS files don   t *have* attributes, no more than Unix files do.   FAL supplies something if you don   t specifically ask for a transfer mode, and that something is probably a safe but unhelpful default like undefined records, 512 block size.

If you ask for text mode, FAL will handle that, and supply something more helpful.   Either stream_crlf, or it will convert to a more popular RMS format, I don   t remember.

If the RSTS file is one that does have attributes already, like a TSK file or an RSX format object file or a BCK (backup set) file, RSTS will just send those attributes across and all is well.   The trouble is that you have to supply attributes if they aren   t already in place.

RSX and VMS don   t have this because all files are RMS files.   

	paul