Enabling interop text mode support in older VOBs

About this task

VOBs created by recent releases of HCL VersionVault are compatible with views in any text mode. VOBs created in earlier versions of the product are compatible only with views in transparent text mode until you run the msdostext_mode command on the VOB.

Only the VOB owner or a privileged user can run msdostext_mode. The command syntax is

versionvault-home-dir/etc/utils/msdostext_mode [ –d ] vob-storage-pname

With no options, msdostext_mode does the following:
  • For all versions of all file elements whose element type is text_file or a subtype of type text_file, generates and stores in the VOB database the information required to support access to these versions by views created in strip_cr or insert_cr text modes.
  • Turns on support for strip_cr and insert_cr text modes, so that this information is recorded for newly created versions.

With the –d option, msdostext_mode disables support for strip_cr and insert_cr text modes.

The msdostext_mode command does not convert or modify files in any way. It affects only the information recorded for text file versions in the VOB database.