[Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

[Dave L]

yeah true, variable with fixed headers, you're right there I remember that  
now, been a while :-)


On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:04:31 -0000, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>  
wrote:

> Actually, VMS don't natively have any record terminators for text files.
> So lines terminated by CR, LF, CR+LF or whatever, are all wrong.
>
> The natural format is variable length records with implied CRLF. Which  
> means that on the disk, the records are prefixed by a length, and no CR  
> or LF are actually present at all.
>
> But of course, such a format is not something a 9660 file system can  
> have, so you'll instead have to tell VMS that the files on that CD  
> should be interpreted as stream-lf, if they are in fact Unix text files.
>
> Exactly how you get VMS to actually interpret the files on the CD that  
> way though, I can't remember. Maybe there is some mount option?
> Otherwise copy the files over to a normal disk, and then change the file  
> attributes to be stream-lf.
>
>    Johnny
>
> On 2018-12-17 16:15, Dave L wrote:
>> Likely the issue is that the *nix system presents the text file as  
>> stream-LF format which VMS won't understand as a standard text file  
>> which it would expect to be CR-LF terminated records. VMS convert  
>> utility would be able to fix that as already mentioned, tho you may  
>> need to tell it what record format you want on the output file, can't  
>> recall now (or use an FDL to define the output file format).
>>  Alternatively you can just cut and paste from your host into the  
>> terminal session to get the initial licenses set up and go from there,  
>> either direct to the VMS prompt to action the commands or capture into  
>> a command file ("$ copy TT: license.com" might work, then ctrl/Z when  
>> finished).
>>  HTH
>> Dave
>>  On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:02:24 -0000, Brian <b_lists at patandbrian.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/17/18 8:44 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote:
>>>> Brian schreef op 17-12-2018 om 14:28
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> I really don't want to have to enter all the licence data
>>>>> interactively, or fix a couple of thousand line endings in the  
>>>>> editor!
>>>>> There must be SOME way of getting the file onto a new setup?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any assistance,
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian.
>>>>
>>>> What usually works for me:
>>>>
>>>>  * open the license command file  file in your mail program / in a
>>>>    notepad on your Linux host.
>>>>  * Open a TPU editor session on your OPA0 simh console terminal
>>>>  * Copy/Paste the License file text into the TPU editor window.
>>>>
>>>> If you get buffer overflows on VMS, try it with just the TCP/IP
>>>> license (called UCX for hysterical reasons), then setup IP networking
>>>> and ftp on VMS.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, thanks, I'll give it a try later today and report back. If anybody
>>> can tell me in simple terms, though, I would like to understand why
>>> the route of going via an ISO didn't work. Is it not possible to
>>> transfer text files to the VAX other than via cut-and-paste without
>>> the line endings getting mangled?
>>>
>>> Brian.
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