"illegal record size" in RSX? - HECnet

14 Apr 2015

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:

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 On 04/14/2015 11:53 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
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 El 14/04/2015, a les 17:25, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> va esc=
riure:
 > On 04/14/2015 11:00 AM, Paul_Koning at
Dell.com wrote:
>>> Hey folks.  I'm moving some text files to an RSX system via DECnet=20
>>> under Linux.  The files on the RSX system are not readable; I get=20
>>> "illegal record size" when trying to type them.
>>>
>>> Has anyone hit this?  I assume there's a simple solution..
>>
>> What are the RMS attributes?  (I don=E2=80=99t know how to ask RSX to= 
show
    those, unfortunately.)  A possible way to get this
would be a file
 with =E2=80=9Cno-span=E2=80=9D records and recordsize > 512. 
  I don't know how to ask RSX for that...I used to be a heavy user of
 RSX, but that was in the 80s; I seem to have forgotten nearly
 everything. :-(
 =20
 This is basically a wild guess... Have you tried to change the line ter= minators
of your files at the Linux side? Try to convert them to 'DOS' st=
yle and see what happens. If the RSX FAL looks for a CR to split the reco=
rds and it does not find it perhaps the result could be just what you are=
 observing.

  Yup, tried that...no change. :-( 
I'm working RMS right now but it is, of course, VMS.  Can you get the file
copied to a VMS system?

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