Re: NT CA/400 transfer only HEX?

[Christian Zander <100070.2407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lo wrote:
>>Of course, there are PC-related workarounds, e.g. you can force CA/400
to translate 65535 data, but for that you'll need to fix every PC,
because the default is no translation.

One thing I can't understand is why IBM decided to convert 65535 data
to  character-hexadecimal representation in the first place. Who would
possibly need that?<<

I have actually fixed my PC with the mentioned workaround. There are no
other users of file-transfer, so this is fine for us.

This way many thanks to all the people answering my question. Obviously I
missed really something ;-).

The question of Lo, why IBM convert 65535 data to character-hex
representation is a good one. I myself must admit that I don't need that.
Well, I thought of writing a short program which converts this char-hex
rep. to normal text. This is not necessary now since it's get fixed but I
can't understand this hex-transfer either.

Thanks again

 Chris
 calling from Kassel, Germany
 
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