Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2220] Impossible to load a VMS "TCPIPtrace" file
Comment # 8
on bug 2220
from Guy Harris
(In reply to comment #7)
> ...where "malformed" probably means "the file is in VARIABLE format".
Or, worse, "fixed" format, with the record length being stored in file's
attributes in the file system; with "variable" format, the record length for
each record is at least in the file somewhere.
Basically, "fixed", "variable", and "variable with fixed-length control" files
should never ever be transferred from a DEC operating system to a non-DEC
operating system, unless the non-DEC operating system has an implementation of
RMS on it *and* the file's format information is available to whatever
RMS-based program is trying to read it, or the transfer process converts the
file to some appropriate text format on the remote machine (using FTP, in
text/ASCII mode rather than binary mode, between the DEC operating system and
the non-DEC operating system may do that). Use "stream" or "stream_lf" format,
instead; "stream" format is Windows text file format and "stream_lf" format is
UN*X text file format. ("stream_cr" is *CLASSIC* Mac text file format, which
does *NOT* apply to Macs running OS X - OS X is a UNIX so it uses UN*X text
file format.)
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