  The terse file data conversion dept? 
 The Question is:
 
How do I convert a indexed file (or ascii file)  to a binary line delimiter
 format?
FYI, I have tried freeware UUDECODE without avail.
 
Much appreciated.
 
Henry.Chuen@smed.com
 
 
 The Answer is:
 
  Your question is sufficiently terse as to be very difficult to answer.
  The OpenVMS Wizard will assume you mean comma- or tab-separated ASCII
  formats why you use the phrase "binary line delimiter" format.  If this
  is a correct assumption, there are no tools that will accept a generic
  RMS file and translate the data into a comma- or tab-separated format.
 
  Tools written in DCL or in most any programming language can obviously
  provide such a file format conversion, as the programmer is typically
  the only one that knows the contents of the individual fields within
  the records of the RMS file -- individual fields within a record can
  contain a wide variety of binary and floating-point data formats, as
  well as ASCII data.  Fields and records can be fixed or variable in
  length, and individual fields can clearly be present or omitted.  (All
  of this makes a generic tool very difficult.)
 
  For the source code of simple tool examples that can read files, please
  see the OpenVMS Freeware among other resources.
 
  For standard OpenVMS file conversion tools, see CONVERT and CONVERT/FDL.
 
  UUDECODE is typucally the name of a tool that performs the standard
  UNIX-to-UNIX file decoding, used to decode binary files after receipt
  via ASCII file transfer techniques such as email.  UUENCODE is the
  equivilent encoding tool.
