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Article #1853Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
From: Michael R Castle
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:49
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:49
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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. > >-dh > This was definitely the problem. I haven't looked into seeing if I can change the pad character on ftp, but I can just pull the dvi file into the editor and change thos padded x00 to xDF's. Thanks! mrc
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.cc.umr.edu!mcs213d.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC References: <1992Aug28.010819.1940@umr.edu> <l9r7r0INNq42@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <1992Aug27.233649.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:49:35 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs213d.cs.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Post) Message-ID: <1992Aug29.134935.20839@umr.edu> Lines: 19