From: antispam@fricas.org   
      
   Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 9/4/2025 8:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 19:55:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>> And not handling VMS RMS VAR, VMS RMS VFC, NOS variable length files,   
   >>> NOS/VE variable length files, whatever fun stuff IBM mainframes may have   
   >>> etc..   
   >>   
   >> We don’t care about those here. We care about VMS OBJ format, which is (or   
   >> should be) easy to transfer to *nix platforms and work on there and even   
   >> generate on there, not so easy to transfer back to VMS.   
   >   
   > I think he got the transfer working both ways with a little   
   > ingenuity.   
      
   Yes, thanks to your tip I can correct attributes on files   
   transmitted from Linux.  To transfer from VMS I can either   
   change attributes to fixed blocks and deal with padding   
   in Linux or use zip -V.  I have tried   
      
   SET FILE/ATTR=(RFM:FIX,MRS:1)   
      
   but that does not give me expected result.   
      
   I was also thinking about using BACKUP (I assume that BACKUP can   
   correctly restore files), but I do not know if its format can be   
   easily decoded.   
      
   BTW: I have found that   
      
   DUMP /HEADER/PAGE /BLOCK=COUNT=0   
      
   gives me more information about file than DIR/FULL/PAGE   
      
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