ASCII, FIXED

>
>Me asked...
>>>Is the file bytestream on the 3000 side (see LISTFILE,2)?
>
>You answered...
>>No.
>
>Ah, that is probably a clue to why the Samba transfer is so
>much slower. Samba being a Posix app and living under the Posix
>view of the world, only knows the notion of bytestream files.
>
>The file system introduces a bytestream emulation to make the
>Posix program "happy" when reading a fixed or variable record
>structure file. This can introduce problems (e.g. overall length
>of the file not matching the expected value due to trimming of
>trailing blanks in text files and adding LF line delimiters) as
>well as introduce (significant) processing overhead.
>
>You might want to try a /bin/tobyte to create a bytestream copy
>of your file and access that copy via Samba to compare transfer
>times. (tobyte needs -a or -at if the file is not binary).
>
>Or you might create the file in bytestream format right from the
>beginning. Sometimes possible with a simple file equation like
>FILE MYFILE;REC=,,B where it had ;REC=-80,,F,ASCII or somesuch
>before.
>
>Lars.
>
>
>PS: What does LISTFILE,3 show? Fixed? Variable? Ascii? Binary?
>

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