Re: FTP on AS/400 to FTP-server on Windows NT, IFS files

Hello,

Thank you for your reaction.
Actually, we are sending from IFS and we have specified ASCII mode explicitly.

I get the impression that a developer on AS/400 - as far as texts files in IFS
are concerned - has a choice between LF line endings (Unix style) or CR-LF
line-endings (MS-DOS style).
The developers of this software package have chosen LF .

Regards,
Peter Van Avermaet
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If you are transferring in ASCII mode the AS/400 FTP client will send CR/LF.
If you are transferring in binary mode the AS/400 will just send what is in
the file. When you are in the IFS directory I think you will find that the
AS/400 will send in binary mode by default. You might want to create the IFS
file with CR/LF or change to ASCII mode for the transfer.

Patrick
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IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and eCommerce
software and consulting services.

http://www.patownsend.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <peter_van_avermaet@coplac.be>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:24 AM
Subject: FTP on AS/400 to FTP-server on Windows NT, IFS files

> We are doing FTP from AS/400 to NT (FTP client on AS/400, FTP server on
NT).
> The file on AS/400 is an IFS file.
> The file is transferred, except that the record terminator (end of line)
in the
> resulting file is LF, not CR-LF .
> If I read RFC959 correctly, it is the sending FTP (the AS/400 FTP in our
case)
> that should make sure the record terminator 'on the wire' is CR-LF, at
least for
> ASCII .
> Type is ASCII (of course),
> MODE is S (it has to be, becaus eof the ASCII),
> STRUCT is F (STRUCT R is not accepted by the FTP server on NT).
>
> Any solutions?
>
> SITE TRIM 0 is rejected by the NT server,
> LOCSITE TRIM 0 has no effect.
> We are using NAMEFMT 1, of course.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Van Avermaet
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