[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[lee.gleason at comcast.net]

Don;t you figure, they were stream files on the source, and got laid byte for byte into files with variable length record type set on the RSX end, which would cause random pairs of bytes to be interpreted as record lengths? A look with dmp ti:=filename.ext /bl /as would let you see if they have record sizes that make sense. 

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From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> 
To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:25:36 AM 
Subject: Re: [HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX? 

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. :-( 

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 

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 
New Kensington, PA 

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