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Re: Porting VMS "writeu" files to UNIX [message #750 is a reply to message #749]

Sun, 18 October 1992 08:46

benell
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Registered: September 1992

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In article <gotwols.719353668@warper.jhuapl.edu> gotwols@warper.jhuapl.edu (Bruce Gotwols) writes:
> I have found that it is very difficult to port IDL files made using
> unformatted writes (eg. writeu,1,buf) to other systems such as UNIX. The
> culprit seems to be that under VMS these files have a record attribute of
> implied carriage return. If I Kermit the files (having set binary) I get an
> irrelevant line feed (ironically not a carriage return) at the end of each
> record. Does anyone have a suggestion?
> Thanks, bruce
> --
Try using the XDR keyword when opening the file with OPENU. This makes
the file a standard format that is portable between machines.

-Kirk

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