xfer only likes maps

Barry Wiseman bwiseman at optonline.net
Wed Oct 29 13:31:21 PDT 2008


Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Barry Wiseman (Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:16:28 -0400):
> 
>> SunOS
>> xfer 5.0.13D4
>>
>> command line:
>>
>> xfer -lf /tmp/p3.xfr -t pendng
>>
>> This results in a p3.xfr file containing only the map.  (Data, screens,
>> reports etc. all missing.)  Running xfer interactively without command
>> line flags, same result.
>>
>> The logfile reads:
>>
>> Start of transfer log  Tue Oct 28 16:03:50 2008
>>
>> filePro file. Name = 'pendng'
>> Extent = 'map'  Type = M
>> Error while opening file `/u/appl/filepro/pendng/m':
>>        No such file or directory
>>
>> Error while opening file `/u/appl/filepro/pendng/o':
>>        No such file or directory
> [...]
> 
> It looks like xfer is misreading the directory.  I assume the rest of
> filePro has no such problems.  Is the rest of filePro also 5.0.13?
> 

The rest is a mix of 5.0.13 and 5.0.14 (looks like a 5.0.14 runtime was 
installed on top of a 5.0.13 development).  The other programs all work 
fine.

> Run xfer with the "-x5" flag, and post a representative segment of the
> resulting xfer log.
> 

Start of transfer log  Wed Oct 29 16:22:46 2008


Generate mount table:

(End mount table generation)
filePro file. Name = 'pendng'
DevIndex = 0,  mt_file = ''
Scanning directory: /u/appl/filepro/pendng
      Size = 206
/u/appl/filepro/pendng/map
Extent = 'map'  Type = M
ext = 'm', ino = 1
/u/appl/filepro/pendng/m
Error while opening file `/u/appl/filepro/pendng/m':
       No such file or directory

ext = 'o', ino = 1
/u/appl/filepro/pendng/o
Error while opening file `/u/appl/filepro/pendng/o':
       No such file or directory

ext = 'p', ino = 1
/u/appl/filepro/pendng/p
Error while opening file `/u/appl/filepro/pendng/p':
       No such file or directory


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