> $@hobbyist-use-only-va.txt
> %RMS-W-RTB 512 bye record to large for user buffer
The little grey cells holding this info are rather dusty, but they're
telling me that back when I used VMS (early '80s) CONVERT/FDL was the
appropriate tool to deal with issues like this.
It took some noodling aroun
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Peter Coghlan wrote:
The most likely to work solutions are to use $ SET FILE /ATTRIBUTES or
Joe Meadows' FILE utility to change the file attributes from fixed 512 to
stream format. The CR-LF pairs in the file will then be treated as record
delimiters and the file will then
[Apologies in advance for this reply not appearing in the thread for this
subject - I read the digest form of cctalk]
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:08:39 -0400
> From: Douglas Taylor
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>
> Subject: VAX file format conversion
> Message
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.
CONVERT is great for taking a file wi
Is iCl VME sound too use toward VMS from Mac?
On Monday, August 15, 2016, Richard Loken 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
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
> On Aug 14, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
> ...
> Is there a linux program that will do the serial terminal emulation/logging ?
> I have a laptop
> that I am using as the console I am thinking of changing it over to Debian
> Linux. I was
> using an old Dell Mini but the keys we
On 8/13/2016 3:14 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Oh and if you are doing serial transfers, yes, keeping the baud rate
low is a good strategy.
I had to spend some time working on the DECnet-DOS DDCMP driver
developing better character overrun recovery strategies. Yes, you may
be coming in via a termin
>
> If you are importing files into VMS, you need to become familiar with the
> EXCHANGE command.
> (found via Google)
> http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04623262
> It can do stream and carriage control conversions on various RMS fixed
> formats.
>
I was a bit puz
If you are importing files into VMS, you need to become familiar with the
EXCHANGE command.
(found via
Google)
http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04623262
It can do stream and carriage control conversions on various RMS fixed formats.
When we first brought up DECn
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Douglas Taylor
wrote:
>
>> Ian ;
>
> I set the baud rate for 300, it was torture, but it worked. However, on
> the vax I had to make sure the terminal width was set to 132.
>
> The license file ran past 80 characters occasionally and screwed things
> up, because t
On 8/11/2016 4:47 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2016-08-11 14:08, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a MicroVax 4000 that I am trying to update the license PAKs on,
the last time I had valid PAKs on this machine was in 2002 (Hobbyist
Licenses).
When I do that (not with VAX, but CP/M) I still use 9600, but set character
pacing at 20ms and line pacing at 200ms. Slow but it works. Mostly.
Rich
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> On Aug 11, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
>> On 8/11/2016 4:47 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016
On 8/11/2016 4:47 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2016-08-11 14:08, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a MicroVax 4000 that I am trying to update the license PAKs on,
the last time I had valid PAKs on this machine was in 2002 (Hobbyist
Licenses).
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> On 2016-08-11 14:08, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>
>> I have a MicroVax 4000 that I am trying to update the license PAKs on,
>> the last time I had valid PAKs on this machine was in 2002 (Hobbyist
>> Licenses).
>>
>> I registered and have recei
On 2016-08-11 14:08, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a MicroVax 4000 that I am trying to update the license PAKs on,
the last time I had valid PAKs on this machine was in 2002 (Hobbyist
Licenses).
I registered and have received the new Hobbyist License PAKs.
I connected a laptop and transferred th
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
> $@hobbyist-use-only-va.txt
>
> %RMS-W-RTB 512 bye record to large for user buffer
>
> It appears that when the file was transferred it showed up on the vax with
> fixed length records of 512 bytes, not variable length.
Not an unusual occurr
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