RSX-11 Kermit Transfers

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Tue Sep 24 23:05:01 2002

At 02:49 PM 24/09/2002 -0700, Clayton Frank Helvey wrote:
>Ethan:
>
>On VMS there was an easier way to transfer files via
>kermit and still retain the files' attributes.
>
>The tecnique involved using VMS' backup utility to
>create a backup file save set with a record length of
>8192 bytes and group=0 (no redundancy groups). You
>transfer that file over to the other system in fixed
>file mode - the result is a 512 byte record length
>binary file.
>
>You then on that system create a small backup save set
>with the same record size of 8192 bytes, and use
>copy/overlay to copy the transferred file over that
>newly created backup saveset. Viola, VMS recreates
>the file from the first system with the proper record
>structure, and you can then use backup/restore to get
>the files you transferred out and put them to use.

With slightly more recent versions of OpenVMS you don't have
to do the copy/overlay trick, you can use the set file
command to change the file attributes instead. Before this
functionality was added there were programs around that
allowed you to "fix" backup savesets that had been transferred
via kermit (or ftp for that matter).

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