During the transfer from the HP3000 to unix, the MPE characteristics of
the file will be lost - in its place you will have a record delimiter
character (CR or LF) automatically inserted by the file transfer program
(reflections or ftp) so that the unix file system can break the file
into records.
Something to try - to convert the file to a bytestream file on the MPE
server before you transfer it and then possibly also use a binary
transfer. If you have MPEX it's easy - otherwise the posix shell allows
you to convert to bytestream files (from memory, the tobyte command! ).
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Duane Percox
Sent: 09 February 2009 22:09
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Mpe: How to Transfer odd-byte files
on your unix box type in 'man dd' and then implement
what you learn :-)
duane
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> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:31 PM
> To: 'John MacLerran'; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Mpe: How to Transfer odd-byte files
>
>
> I usually set up a record that is 10 times the odd record in
> length and put 10 records into it. Then on the receiving side
> I break the file back down by dividing the big record into 10
> little ones.
>
> Charles C Cookston
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John MacLerran
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:41 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Mpe: How to Transfer odd-byte files
>
> Dear HP3000-L
> I'm trying to figure out how to send odd-byte files from MPE to unix.
>
> We're implementing a new ERP system, and one of the data import file
> descriptions indicates that the file must be fixed-length
> ASCII, with each
> record being 149 bytes.
>
> No matter what I do on MPE, the file still winds up as 150 bytes.
>
> The file is created in PowerHouse QTP, and I've been able to
> create the file
>
> with the necessary fields in the necessary locations, and
> when I do a listf,2 on
> the file, it shows 149 bytes:
>
> FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
> SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
> FUPLOAD8 149B FA 831 831 1 496 2 *
>
> But, when I transfer it, it comes out the other side as 150 bytes.
>
> Here's what I've tried:
> 1. Reflection transfer, specifying to keep trailing blanks,
> with host record size
> of 149 bytes.
> 2. FTP to an hp-ux server.
> 3. Posix shell: cat the file | cut -b1-149 > newfile and
> then reflection
> transfer / ftp newfile
>
> Is there anything else I can try?
> Thanks!
>
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