Subject: unix dvi to vm/cms dvi

From: Mike Castle <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:06:29 CDT

I'm not sure if this is the forum to ask such a question, but in my
review of the past year or so's discussions, this looks like a
knowledgable group.
 
I have a dvi file created on a unix system that I want to print out on
our IBM mainframe running vm/cms.  Our unix is ascii based, and the IBM
is ebcdic based.  When ever I try to prepare the dvi for printing on our
3820 printer, the program cannon recognize the dvi file.  I transfer it
using ftp, trying ascii, binary, and binary with a specified fixed record
length.  Nothing seems to work.
 
Has anyone had this problem, and developed a solution for it??
I'm pretty much at a loss.
 
Any help is appreciated.
 
Mike Castle
 
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From: Don Hosek <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:21:50 -0700

The file should be transferred binary with fixed length records
(F1024 I believe should be the standard). Then check the last
record using Xedit in hex mode. There will likely be padding of
x00's. Those need to be changed to xDF's. After this change, the
file should process fine.
 
-dh