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Article #18vms format files and unix format files
From: mark edwards
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1987 02:18
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1987 02:18
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I have been playing around with rrn on Eunice these days and have
notice some interesting (read: very frustrating and maddening )
features of Eunice.
It seems to make a difference in what format a file is. There are
two formats, at least, unix and VMS. Now I had gotten rrn working
as for as being able to read news and postnews remotely, but I
could not save the articles that I wanted to. It said it saved it
and then I looked in the directory. Nothing there. Well I realize
that Eunice has problems returning error coders of forked processes
and such. But lying about what it is doing is another story.
The problem was that the "mbox.saver" shell script was in Unix format.
I changed it to VMS format and viola it worked. Before doing this
I noticed that the script when called from csh would fault with
the typical VMS error code "Error in Activation" or something like
that. But when I ran it through sh on the command line it worked.
After changing it to VMS format it worked on the command line without
the sh.
Does anybody have an explanation for this ????
Yes I use Eunice. Do You ?
mark
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!edwards From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice Subject: vms format files and unix format files Message-ID: <1250@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 21:18:36 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1250 Posted: Tue Mar 17 21:18:36 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 02:50:03 EST Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 30 Keywords: how to tell when.