With the tool 'file' (available on all vms ftp sites), one
can view and change the attributes of a file. Changing from
'variable length' to 'fixed length, 512 bytes' reveals the
record length at the first 2 bytes of every record. The same
happens during the transfer of object files from vms to unix,
at least with ucx, dec's implementation of tcp/ip.
With the tool 'file' (available on all vms ftp sites), one
can view and change the attributes of a file. Changing from
'variable length' to 'fixed length, 512 bytes' reveals the
record length at the first 2 bytes of every record. The same
happens during the transfer of object files from vms to unix,
at least with ucx, dec's implementation of tcp/ip.