From: Tzachi Nissim [tzachi@attunity.co.il]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:07 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Converting a stream_lf file to a variable file

We've had to deal with the opposite problem - converting a variable file to
stream_lf. We just created an fdl file for a stream_lf and used
convert/fdl=... - wouldn't that work here as well?

Tzachi

"David J. Dachtera" <djesys.nospam@fsi.net> wrote in message
news:3B96E38B.415B04C8@fsi.net...
> David Spencer wrote:
> >
> > How about a timeout over the take-under of HP by Compaq for an
> > actual question :)
> >
> > I've got some files generated by a C program that are Stream_LF format.
> > I'd like to write a BASIC program to read them. I've considered several
> > options but with little success in any of them.
> >
> > Is there a CONVERT/FDL that works? Or perhaps someone has a nifty
> > subroutine in C that I could call that would return the data line by
> > line? (I'm not a C programmer.) Or another worthy suggestion on
> > how I may solve my problem?
> >
> > All of this is happening on VMS Alpha 7.2-1
> >
> > Many thanks to you all, now back to the Fear and Loathing of HP...
>
> Download http://www.djesys.com/freeware/vms/ppf012.zip and look at
> PPF.BAS (executor portion of my Port-Print Facility (PPF) for use with
> VTs and compatible emulators).
>
> This seems to work for all known variants of record attributes and
> record formats, but I've been wrong before... It can't predict every
> possible combination of embedded and implied carriage control in a
> single file, but it should work with Stream, Stream_CR or Stream_LF just
> fine within the known limits.
>
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