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In article <1992Aug27.233649.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:

|> When moving a DVI file to any system with a record-based file
|> system (CMS, MVS, VMS, ???), you also need to worry about the
|> padding of the final record of the file. Simply using FTP to
|> transfer the file with F1024 records is not enough for a valid
|> DVI file on CMS (although it is necessary). One must also make
|> sure that the file is padded xDF (which is valid) instead of the
|> x00's that are inserted by every file transfer protocol.

Yep. I remember that someone once wrote a 'stripnul' program for me
that removed trailing NULLs from .TFM and .PXL files that I made
on CMS and subsequently wanted to use on the Atari.

|> -dh
|> 
|> btw Victor, even ignoring the record issue, ST-Unix is far from
|> an analogous file transfer.

I know. It was just to make the point that DVI files are machine independent
to a large extent. Contrary to practically all other types of binary data.

|> Don Hosek                  

Victor.