Record Terminator(OpenVMS->HPUX)

[Henry_52]

Hello,

I converted OpenVMS flat file to HPUX flat file using Vbackup. But When I read converted files, I can't find record terminator.(It looks like one record.) How can I see record terminator after conversion.

Henry

Below is replied e-mail from BBC.
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It is not that Vbackup did not put the record terminator into the file but rather because on VMS there might not have been a record terminator that UNIX will recognize. On some files in OpenVMS, for example, the record begins with a 4 digit number that indicates how long the record is. Extracted to a UNIX system this would look like a single record.

Adding characters to a file to indicate the end of a record is not always what people need. Without the options set Vbackup does not modify the data being restored.

To make some files useable on UNIX, there has to be some additional conversion. Vbackup cannot know, for example, what the fields in a record should be. That would have to be done after the data is extracted.