xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:35:18PM -0500, Brian K. White thus spoke:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:17:07PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> >> swapcpu? Just sounds like:
> >> dd conv=swab if=in.txt of=out.txt

And you said the 'swab' was SCO syntax, but not really.  It's been
around for years on others.

> >
> > *Ghod* no.

> > You only have to swap the *record headers*, where there is binary
> > data. Everything else is stored in ASCII; if you swap it, you'll
> > trash the data.

> Interesting, annoying too. Oh well, back to the original
> problem which is that xfer should have worked.

Just split the each record into two pieces, swap the heard, and add
the rest.  I did something similar a very long time ago before the
xfer program existed.  As I recall it's just the first 20 bytes
that need to be swapped.

Bill
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