VAX file format conversion

Steve Bez sbez742 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 08:49:00 CDT 2016


Is iCl VME sound too use toward VMS from Mac?

On Monday, August 15, 2016, Richard Loken <rlloken at telus.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Peter Coghlan wrote:
>
> If you are importing files into VMS, you need to become familiar with the
>>> EXCHANGE command.
>>>
>>
> I was a bit puzzled by this.  I thought the main use of EXCHANGE was to
>> to copy files to or from disk or tape volumes which are not in a native
>> VMS format but are in a format native to some other DEC operating system.
>>
>
> On vms say something like this:
>
>         $ help analyze
>         (pay attention to the parts about /rms and /fdl)
>
>         $ help convert
>
> build and and edit an fdl file and then say something like:
>
>         $ convert /fdl=foo.fdl foo.old foo.new
>
> sigh.
>
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