On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:30:20 -0500 (Central Daylight Time), Mark Bixby
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Wirt Atmar wrote:
>>
>> Jim asks:
>>
>> > 2.      A colleague wishes to transmit an HP-3000 program and associated
>> >  message catalogue files to a remote site via ftp using a PC at the
>> >  remote site as the ftp server.  What is the current state-of-the-art
>> >  practice for this?.  Does one still use (shudder) ryder?
>>
>> FTP, using binary transfer, will work fine for transferring the file to the
>> PC ftp server, but it's important to note that all of your MPE file
>> characteristics will be lost in the transfer.
>>
>> If you wish to then download the MPE file from the PC to a second HP3000,
>> you're going to have to tell the second system how to build the file(s) using
>> the build parameters.
>
>Unless you first wrap your files in a tar or :STORE-to-disk archive on the
>first 3000.  Then you can unpack them on the second 3000 without losing any of
>the MPE file characteristics.
>--

Has the tar problem with variable record length type files been fixed
then? As far as I know tar will create these type correctly, but in
some cases fail to correctly extract the data into them.


Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]

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