Hi all,

I'm hoping someone can with this as it is driving me crazy. I am
trying to sftp a file from an OpenVMS box using SSH secure File
transfer program. The file type is .lis (a text file) and I use ASCII
to perform transfers. I can transfer files under 1MB with no problem,
but anything bigger than that and the transfer stops and I get an
error:

"File transfer server could not be started or it exited unexpectedly.
Exit value 0 was returned. Most likely the sftp-server is not in the
path of hte user on the server-side."

If I use binary mode, the transfer completes successfully, but the
file formatting gets screwed up so this is unacceptable. I'm sorry
if I left out any pertinent information but I am not very good at VMS/
unix.

Any would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

On 14 Aug, 17:48, cheebad...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hoping someone can with this as it is driving me crazy. I am
> trying to sftp a file from an OpenVMS box using SSH secure File
> transfer program. The file type is .lis (a text file) and I use ASCII
> to perform transfers. I can transfer files under 1MB with no problem,
> but anything bigger than that and the transfer stops and I get an
> error:
>
> "File transfer server could not be started or it exited unexpectedly.
> Exit value 0 was returned. Most likely the sftp-server is not in the
> path of hte user on the server-side."
>
> If I use binary mode, the transfer completes successfully, but the
> file formatting gets screwed up so this is unacceptable. I'm sorry
> if I left out any pertinent information but I am not very good at VMS/
> unix.
>
> Any would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

Well, being in OpenVMS is one set of problems. It's really not a
common platform. But if you can transfer successfully in binary mode,
why not install "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"? Or isn't that available in
OpenVMS?

On 14 Aug, 17:48, cheebad...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hoping someone can with this as it is driving me crazy. I am
> trying to sftp a file from an OpenVMS box using SSH secure File
> transfer program. The file type is .lis (a text file) and I use ASCII
> to perform transfers. I can transfer files under 1MB with no problem,
> but anything bigger than that and the transfer stops and I get an
> error:
>
> "File transfer server could not be started or it exited unexpectedly.
> Exit value 0 was returned. Most likely the sftp-server is not in the
> path of hte user on the server-side."
>
> If I use binary mode, the transfer completes successfully, but the
> file formatting gets screwed up so this is unacceptable. I'm sorry
> if I left out any pertinent information but I am not very good at VMS/
> unix.
>
> Any would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

Well, being in OpenVMS is one set of problems. It's really not a
common platform. But if you can transfer successfully in binary mode,
why not install "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"? Or isn't that available in
OpenVMS?