[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-15 16:56, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
> Stream-CR, interesting.

No, this is not the same as Stream-CR. RSX do not have the Stream-LF and 
Stream-CR types.

The record attributes is a separate detail, which tells what is implied 
at the end of each record, while the organization tells how records are 
separated.

So, in this case, records are treated as stream. In RMS-11, this means 
that ant CR+LF combo is treated as a record separator. And actually, a 
single LF is also treated as a record separator. I should check the 
manuals, but I think FF is also a record separator.
The record separator is not included in the read record.
And then the attributes tells you that in this case, each record is 
supposedly a line with CR+LF at the end.

> I thought that you can adjust what Linux does, and a check of the manpage for dncopy confirms that.  The default record format is stream -- which is fine for Linux and RSTS, not so much for RSX.  To override it, add "-r var" to set the record format to variable, which is what RSX-like systems prefer.

Yeah. Seems like that might do the trick. Will be interesting to hear if 
it works.

	Johnny

>
>      paul
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> ...
>
>    Just got back from road trip #1, only have a moment, will get back to
> this in the morning.  Here is the DSP output:
>
> $ dsp forth.mac
>
> DU:[10,1]FORTH.MAC;1
>                          Size:    139./144.       Created: 15-APR-2015 00:54
>                          Owner:   [001,010]       Revised: 15-APR-2015 00:55
>                          File ID: (5601,10,0)     Expires: <none_specified>
>    File protection:      System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RWED, World:R
>    File organization:    Sequential
>    File attributes:      Allocation=144, Extend=0
>    Record format:        Stream, maximum 255 bytes
>    Record attributes:    Carriage return
>
>                   -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>