Re: 20000323: NetCDF libraries vor Open VMS operating systems

Wiekie,

>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:46:27 +0100
>From: Wiekie Kollen <address@hidden>
>Organization: 
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20000320: NetCDF libraries vor Open VMS operating systems 
>Keywords: 200003201040.DAA26046

In the above message, you wrote:

> Thank you for the effort in finding a solution.  Meanwhile we found a
> more simple solution which goes hereby as a attachment, just in case
> some other party encounters the same problem.

> Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996, 1997.  All rights reserved.
> 
> PRODUCTS:   DIGITAL OpenVMS VAX, Versions 6.0 and Above
>             DIGITAL OpenVMS Alpha, Versions 6.0 and Above
>             DIGITAL TCP/IP Services For OpenVMS (UCX), Versions 3.0
>                                                           and Above
> 
> COMPONENTS: BACKUP Utility
>             File Transfer Protocol, (FTP)
> 
> SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation
> 
> 
> SYMPTOM:
> 
> An attempt to restore or list the contents of a saveset that was transfer-
> red using FTP, fails with the following errors:
> 
>      %BACKUP-E-READERRS excessive error rating reading
>      -BACKUP-E-BLOCKCRC software block CRC error
> 
> 
> SOLUTION:
> 
> Use the following steps to correct the problem:
> 
>  1) Compare the record format of the original saveset, to the record
>     format of the saveset transferred by FTP, using the "DIRECTORY/FULL"
>     command.
> 
>     NOTE: Backup savesets are in a fixed length format with a 32256
>           byte record size by default. This may vary if the original
>           BACKUP was done using the /BLOCKSIZE=n qualifier.
> 
>  2) If the record format of the file copied using FTP does not match
>     the original, use the following command to correct the attributes:
> 
>          $ SET FILE/ATTRIBUTE=(RFM:FIX,LRL:<byte_record_size_of_orig-
>            inal_saveset>)
> 
> 
> ANALYSIS:
> 
> Using FTP to transfer a backup saveset from a system running UCX, to
> a system that does not have UCX installed changes the file format.

Most excellent!  Thanks!

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>