Sory,
I forgot that on VAX there is no /VFC option on VAX.
Ian,
Yes CONVERT can do the job. But how you instruct convert to add blank lines and form feeds to the output? As I know CONVERT will lose all printing information and if you convert a file like:
line 1
line 3
line 6
you will receive a file:
line 1
line 3
line 6
Now I cant test, but a C program like this:
#include
int main(int argc,char ** argv)
{
FILE * inf, *outf;
char buf[1024];
inf = fopen(argv[1],"r");
outf = fopen(argv[2],"w");
for (;;)
{
if (fgets(buf,1024,inf))
fputs(buf,outf);
else
break;
}
fclose (inf);
fclose (outf);
}
will do the work. (the program has no tests and is only an example! Add all tests). For a VAX I am not shure that this works but on an Alpha it works because the C runtime reads the fixed header of the record and interpret the contents. So you receive all the line feeds from the interpreatation of the fixed header.
If this does not work on an VAX you must write a program which will read the file with RMS routines and interpret the fixed header of each record.
Bojan
