Re: Getting a PC File to the AS/400 via Client Access (Windows 95)

I treat mine as ascii text files and it handles the conversion fine.  I am
using netsoft instead of CA but that shoulndt make a difference.  I treat
them as
flat files on the 400 (600)  and define the fields in the program that
reads them..  Ony caveat--it wont handle packed fields, but an ascii text
shouldnt have any anyhow.---This might be referred to as a "geezer" method,
 but it works.

Regards,

Bob




At 02:29 PM 7/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Robert,
>
>This file is alpha/numeric. Are you saying that this method will do the
conversion
>?
>
>Thanks !
>
>Chuck
>
>Robert Montague wrote:
>
>> How about having them email it to you as an attachment and upload it as
>> ascii and read the data on the 400---we do it all the time with timber
>> certificates--wrkmans comp--bank stuff--
>>
>> >I am TRYING to get a file from a PC to the AS/400...
>> >
>> >We are on a 620, V4R1
>> >Windows 95
>> >Client Access
>> >Net Soft Router
>> >TWIN-AX (BOS) emulation card
>> >NO network (yet...)
>> >
>> >
>> >File is from a Unix system via a custom written utility that produces an
>> >ASCII text file, "columnar" layout, no delimeters...
>> >
>> >WHAT is the easiet way to do this ?
>> >
>> >Thanks !!
>> >
>> >Chuck
>> >
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