Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:9065 comp.unix.wizards:11407 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!fredonia!mazumdar From: mazumdar@fredonia.UUCP (Jin Mazumdar) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system Message-ID: <1127@fredonia.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 88 04:16:03 GMT References: <411@marob.MASA.COM> <3597@encore.UUCP> <3438@crash.cts.com> <3625@encore.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Lines: 15 In-reply-to: bzs@encore.UUCP's message of 18 Sep 88 17:06:54 GMT I have just been browsing through this discussion and have not read all follow ups. Although UNIX does not have fixed length records can one not convert any file in UNIX to fixed length records using the dd utility? On the other hand on fixed format systems the best you could do is fake variable format with an end of record marker and possibly wasting the rest of the record. Jin Mazumdar (uucp:) ...decvax!sunybcs!fredonia!mazumdar >>> The following are for historical interest only <<< Dept. Of Math and C. S. State University of New York College at Fredonia Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459