[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:

>On 04/14/2015 11:53 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
>>=20
>> El 14/04/2015, a les 17:25, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> va esc=
>riure:
>>> 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=20
>>>>> under Linux.  The files on the RSX system are not readable; I get=20
>>>>> "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=E2=80=99t know how to ask RSX to=
> show
>>>> those, unfortunately.)  A possible way to get this would be a file
>>>> with =E2=80=9Cno-span=E2=80=9D 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. :-(
>>>
>>=20
>> This is basically a wild guess... Have you tried to change the line ter=
>minators of your files at the Linux side? Try to convert them to 'DOS' st=
>yle and see what happens. If the RSX FAL looks for a CR to split the reco=
>rds and it does not find it perhaps the result could be just what you are=
> observing.
>
>  Yup, tried that...no change. :-(

I'm working RMS right now but it is, of course, VMS.  Can you get the file
copied to a VMS system?

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