Re: FTP - AS/400 to UNIX

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:47 PM 3/12/98 EST, JBakerii wrote:
>Is there a way I can FTP the file and have the sign be a separate byte?  I
>know that we could write a RPG program to read the file and output to another
>file with all numeric fields translated to alpha, but I don't want to if it
>can be done another way.  If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me
>know here on the list.

FTP doesn't know anything about the record layout... so it' won't do any
translation, other than EBCDIC to ASCII.

The only thing you can do is write a HLL program that will look at the
signed fields and, if they are negative, put some kind of indication in an
additional field to indicate so.

david

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