Kevin Zachmann <zach@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> With this OS [VMS 4.5] and kermit executable, one cannot reliably transfer binaries!
> The docs make mention exchanging P/OS and RT11 files and explicitly
> state that some forms of data will not transfer correctly. I found out
> it's binary data. Setting the file type to fixed is not the solution.
> Yes, you get a 512 byte record file, no it's not usable.

I don't know that much about VMS, but various Unix utilities that
are ported seem to use the stream-lf filetype as a substitute for
binary files. Zoo for example comes with a utility to convert a file
to steam-lf (or something along those lines).

-Olaf.
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