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Re: posix issues with paymenttech
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Tony Summers <[log in to unmask]>
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Tony Summers <[log in to unmask]>
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Excellent article here.

http://www.robelle.com/tips/mpeforunix.html#files

I agree with the previous posts - you first need to convert your file to bytestream before you can use it in posix. 

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Lalley
Sent: 01 April 2014 04:17
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] posix issues with paymenttech

tobyte is plan b.   Thanks,

-Craig




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 From: Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
To: Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: posix issues with paymenttech
 


On 3/31/14 7:29 PM, Craig Lalley wrote:
> The HP3000 implementation of Posix needs some serious work.

...which is likely never to happen.


> I need to submit a file to PaymentTech.
>
> It is an 80 byte file.
...
> Now before I submit it to Paymenttech, I need to zip the file.

I would convert it to a bytestream file *before* zipping it:

   :tobyte.hpbin.sys "-at /SG2VER/PUB/LCAUTHOT /SOME/NEW/FILE"


Barry





On 3/31/14 7:29 PM, Craig Lalley wrote:
> The HP3000 implementation of Posix needs some serious work.
>
> I need to submit a file to PaymentTech.
>
> It is an 80 byte file.
>
> :listf lcauthot.pub.sg2ver,2
> ACCOUNT=  SG2VER      GROUP=  PUB
>
> FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
>                    SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
> LCAUTHOT           80B  FA          20     150000   3     1472  1 32
>
> Now before I submit it to Paymenttech, I need to zip the file.
>
> Shell/ix>  zip lcauthot.zip /SG2VER/PUB/LCAUTHOT
>
> I then sftp the file to PaymentTech.
>
> PaymentTech is not processing the file because it is supposedly 96 bytes long.
>
> If I unzip the file it become a bytestream file.
>
> :listf my@,2
> ACCOUNT=  SYS         GROUP=  PUB
>
> FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
>                    SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
> MYFILE              1B  BA         802 2147483647   1       16  1  *
>
> If I FCOPY FROM=MYFILE;TO=;HEX;CHAR     no record exceeds 80 bytes.
>
> Why do they think it is an 96 byte file?
>
> I have thought of converting the LF, to CR/LF with the -l option.
>
> That will be my next attempt.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Craig
>
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