Chris Bartram writes:
> No, actually I used cp (done it dozens of times). For ascii/text files (like
> html!) that got uploaded as fixed length ascii, just cp'ing in the shell
> creates the copy as a bytestream that edits fine in vi.

Then I'm mystified based on what happens on my own 5.5 PP4 machine:

picard:/TSS/MARK$ callci 'listfile udc,2'
ACCOUNT=  TSS         GROUP=  MARK

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

UDC     *          72B  FA           5          5  35       16  1  *


picard:/TSS/MARK$ cp UDC JUNKUDC
picard:/TSS/MARK$ callci 'listfile junkudc,2'
ACCOUNT=  TSS         GROUP=  MARK

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

JUNKUDC            72B  FA           5          5  35       16  1  *

Note that the "MPE-ness" of the copied file has been preserved, and not
converted to bytestream format....
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