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Re: FTP to UNIX

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:32:01 +0000, Martin Rowe <martin@dbg400.net> wrote:


>Are you doing ASCII or BINARY transfer? ASCII will add line endings to
>make the file appear as a text file at the other end, and the iSeries
>defaults to Windows style CRLF endings. What does the other end want -
>just LF (standard Unix) or nothing? Either use BINARY (which gets you the
>'nothing'), or maybe do a CPYTOSTMF ENDLINFMT(*LF) to the IFS first and
>then ftp that.
>

Martin,

Thanks.  I am doing an ASCII transfer.  I don't know why I didn't think of
trying BIN (It's the 'nothing' that they want).

I'll give it a shot.

Gord

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