Record format

[Phillip Ross Smith]

Here is the link...

> The kits and documentation are available from the HP OpenVMS CIFS  
> web site at:
>
>       http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/CIFS_for_Samba.html

On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Aravinda Guzzar wrote:

> 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
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