Re: FTP problem in record Truncation

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could force a hex character in the last position, maybe a null value
x'00'.
Just a thought.
Carl

At 05:42 PM 11/4/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi All,
>
>     This is somewhat related to a recent question on last truncating
>characters in records for FTP. Infact, I've sent the solution. But now I
>have a similar problem. We are sending some work files to PC from AS400
>daily. The last character for each record in the workfiles is '|'. On
>As400, when we see the file, it looks OK. But when FTP the file to PC, the
>last character is being translated as '!' (exclamation symbol). Some of our
>PC jobs are failing due to this inconsistancy. We want to replace this '|'
>character with someother character to identify the End of record. But if we
>replace it with someother character, we are not sure whether that character
>will be transmitted properly or not. We cannot go on trial and error basis.
>So I want to check any of you have similar problems and if so, which
>characters you've used.
>
>Note : I could use characters 0...9 but I dont want because the last field
>in the work file is a number, so for users, it will be confusing if we put
>0...9 as the last character.
>
>Thanx in advance for any help/suggestion. Good day.
>
>Best Regards,
>VenuGopal
>
>
>+---
>| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
>| To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".
>| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com
>|    and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message.
>| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
>+---
>
Carl J. Galgano
http://cgalgano.home.mindspring.com
mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.   
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA 30064
770-422-2995
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com
|    and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---