Transferring files

[Prasad_33]

Need to transfer files from OpenVMS version 6 to VMS version 5.5

Ftp screws up the files and cannot use "set file/attribute" command as it is not available on VMS 5.5

please let me know if there is an alternative other than backing up on tape and transferring the files

[David B Sneddon · Accepted solution]

Prasad,

Any reason you can't use DECnet?
You can ZIP the files (using -V to preserve the
VMS attributes) then FTP the ZIP file.
You could try C-Kermit from
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html

Dave

[Antoniov.]

Hi Prasad,
welcome to VMS world.

If your servers are both connected on the same physical network, the simplest way is DecNet.
I guess DecNet is already running so you can type on both server follw command
$ MC NCP SH EXEC
and report result to us.
Warning: dollar symbol is conevntional way to say DCL command, you don't type it.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Make a backup to disk (save set) and ftp the save set as binary. Then restore the files from the save set.

Wim

[Jan van den Ende]

Wim,


Make a backup to disk (save set) and ftp the save set as binary. Then restore the files from the save set.



It is just THAT sequence of events that needs SET FILE/ATTRIB !

Prasad:
I am not sure what "scres up" implies.

Did you transfer your binary files
TYPE BINARY and your text files
TYPE ASCI ?

If you intend to transfer indexed files, then I think you are limited to DECnet.

(what IP stacks are you using? _IF_ your IP on both sides supports it, they CAN agree upon VMS-VMS transfer, which also transfers, and restores, the file header. I doubt if that was already available under 5.5)

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Jan, it all depends on what the IP stack is doing (version 2 ?). It's just a possibility that might work.

Wim

[Doug Phillips]

Take a look at this:

http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?FILE

FILE is what we used before $set file/attrib existed.

Don't know if the included .exe runs on 5.5 but the C source is provided.

[Prasad_33]

Hi,

First of all, thanks everyone for your quick responses.

Our servers are not connected and so I couldn't use DecNet.

The saveset doesn't work. Once we ftp the saveset, it takes the default size of 512 and we cannot extract the saveset - even with the BINARY attrib for Binary files and ASCII for text.

BUT, zip did work perfectly.
David's right on target when he suggested using zip â -Vâ

Thanks everyone for their suggestions.

[Prasad_33]

Thanks everyone.