hidden character ?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:28:20 -0500):

> Ken,
>
> I have been using a binary FTP for about 1 and 1/2 years. Before that
> ASCII. My experience has been that I had more errors in ascii as filepro
> had trouble reading the records being imported, than I did in binary.
> The only problem I do have periodically is the "?". I am able to
> overcome that problem with filepro programming by using the len command
> and re-writing to the field the same info.
>
> In any event, in my environment (AIX) binary seems to be more reliable.
[...]

A text file should (read: "must") be sent in ASCII mode if you are
going between system with different end-of-line characters.  A binary
file must be sent in BINARY mode, always.  This has nothing to do with
filePro, and everything to do with text and binary files.

I have never heard of any problems sending a text file in ASCII mode.

Unless AIX's ftp is broken, send text file as test files with ASCII mode.

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