hidden character ?

[Dennis Malen]

Perhaps the reason we have experienced FTP problems in ASCII could be that 
we use Tiny Term to FTP. We use that facility to transfer ascii files from 
windows to AIX and in the reverse. Perhaps our success in binary is unique 
to Tiny Term.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: hidden character ?


> 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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