Re: Can I make FTP embed EOLs in source members transfered as EBCIDIC?

Man, you really want to do this the hardest way you can find!! And the method with the most risk, it seems!!

Is there some reason that you can't use RDi, the editor that suits the kind of source better than anything else?

But if you have to go this route, seems to me your editor has a basic flaw - why in the world would it only be able to save things using binary transfer? That is severely broken, IMNSHO.

To confuse the matter, source CAN be stored in the IFS as stream files - EBCDIC, of course.

Regards and still confused!
Vern

On 1/23/2016 9:14 AM, Justin Dearing wrote:

tl;dr: I want to be able to edit source members on my PC via FTP.
EBCIDIC/BINARY seems a better option for my text editor if I could get an
81st column appended to my source members with a carriage return character.

The long version

Well gentleman, one of my first observations of the iSeries when I touched
one a decade ago was how well IBM abstracts the low level internals away.
Ironically, last night it gave me the first legitimate use for a hex editor.

First of all I know that if I use ASCII transfer things will get converted
automatically. However, my text editor (http://farmanager.com/) will
retrieve members in TEXT format, but writes them back in binary, corrupting
the source member. The authors of the FTP component seem to like this
because they feel an EOF would corrupt the source member:

https://github.com/michaellukashov/Far-NetBox/issues/184#issuecomment-174176987

Now there are two problems with editing the source members as EBCIDIC. The
first is my text editot of choice doesn't set the encoding right, but
that's a simple enough fix. The second, it doesn't know to insert a new
line every 80 characters. EBCIDIC has a carriage return character, is there
any way I can make the FTP server insert one? Or can it do something else
like embed some kind of EBCIDIC header that will give the format of the
source member? I could ask the maintainers of the editor to have a mode
where the lines get wrapped at 80 characters, but I'm wondering if there is
another way.

Thanks,

Justin