Record format

[Aravinda Guzzar]

Hi,

HP has recently released a version of samba that do support Variable length
record format files through VFS modules. It automatically converts the file
formats from Variable-length record format to Stream (seperate VFS exists
for StreamLF support) if there is any Write operation on the file.

-Aravind

On 1/8/08, John Santos <john.santos at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> David J Dachtera wrote:
> > RMS Sequential Variable files produced on VMS cannot be read as expected
> by
> > Windows programs. They expect <CR><LF> pairs to be embedded in the data,
> and
> > they aren't there. The "Record Attributes" are meaningless here (no
> > extraneous data is retieved from/written to the file).
> >
> > In order to be readable by Windows programs, files on VMS must have RMS
> > attributes showing a record format of Stream or Stream_LF.
>
> In addition to having record attributes showing a format of Stream,
> it must actually be in stream format, i.e. it must actually contain
> the <CR><LF> between each line.  So it doesn't do any good to just
>   $ set file/attributes=rfm=STM,
> you need to convert the file to stream (or create it that way in the
> first place.)  The easiest way to do that is to use convert/fdl with
> a .fdl file specifying (from TCPWARE:STREAMCRLF.FDL):
>
> IDENT   "28-OCT-1991 13:22:18   VAX-11 FDL Editor"
>
> SYSTEM
>         SOURCE                  VAX/VMS
>
> FILE
>         BEST_TRY_CONTIGUOUS     no
>         CONTIGUOUS              no
>         NAME                    ""
>         ORGANIZATION            sequential
>
> RECORD
>         BLOCK_SPAN              yes
>         CARRIAGE_CONTROL        carriage_return
>         FORMAT                  stream
>         SIZE                    0
>
> (Example .FDL file courtesy TCPware.  There's no copyright in it, so
> I assume I can post it here.)
>
> On the other hand, it *might* be possible to get coerce the Samba
> server into converting Seq Var files to Stream on the fly, much as
> the POP, IMAP, FTP, NFS and Apache 2.1 servers do.  I've messed
> around a little with Samba, but am certainly not an expert...
> Does anyone else know for sure if this is possible.
>
>
>
> >
> > David J Dachtera
> > DJE Systems
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-vms-bounces+djesys=comcast.net at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-vms-bounces+djesys=comcast.net at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > rolf.mathisen at sandefjord.kommune.no
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:38 AM
> > To: samba-vms at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Record format
> >
> > We have recently installed Samba on VMS (Itanium).
> >
> > We have problems in reading text-files produced on VMS. The CR/LF does
> not
> > work. The data stream appears in a long line.
> >
> > The file attributes on VMS are:
> >
> > Record format: Variable length, maximum 0 bytes, longest 75 bytes
> > Record attributes: Carriage return carriage control
> >
> > Do I have to change these attributes or is there anything to do in the
> > SMB.CONF file?
> >
> > RG Rolf
>
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-- 
Aravinda
(Views expressed here are my personal opinion ONLY)