Re: using ftp trims off trailing blanks

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich said:
> We are using ftp to transfer a file from the iSeries to another
> computer (non-iSeries).  We transfer a database file that contains one
> record that is 512 bytes long.  The file is transferred to a text file
> on the other machine.  When the file is transferred the record length
> is truncated to the width of the longest non-blanks record in the file
> (i.e. it is trimming trailing blanks).  How can we transfer this file
> and preserve the record length?

The way I did it, long time ago, was to append a non-blank character to the
end of the record.

david