ftp (was Re: hidden character ?)

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:36:55PM -0500):

| Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:15:54 -0500):
| [...]
| > However, when I transfer filePro stuff between my laptop and my
| > UNIX system, I have to be careful whether NcFTP is in ASCII or
| > Binary Mode.  Though they'll work either ways, processing tables
| > (saved with ABE=ASCII) are better transferred in Binary Mode
| > (I'm not sure about tables saved with ABE=""; I haven't tried it,
| > but they might be corrupted by translation of possible hex 0a's
| > in the encrypted tables).
| 
| Encoded prc files must be sent in binary, as they are not text files.
| As you said, 0x0D and 0x0A characters may be mangled by ASCII mode.
| (Not to mention, that Windows clients may stop the transfer if 0x1A
| is encountered.)
| 
| > filePro User Menus (though they also work either way) are also
| > better transferred in Binary Mode (if not, they can't be used
| > with my MENU EDIT II program, because an ASCII Mode transfer
| > will add CRs to the Menu's three ssgments, making them longer
| > than the 4719 bytes my MENU EDIT II program expects).
| 
| Also, if you have 10 menu items, the first byte in the file will
| be 0x0A.  (And 13 items will cause 0x0D to be the first byte.)
| 
| [...]

Thanks for the additional information.

I knew there was some good reason why I designed MENU EDIT II
to work only on 4719 and 2801 (legacy) filePro User Menu files
(and then I got 5661 size menus when I was beta testing fPGI,
and so I allowed for them also, though I've not run into any
of them since, and don't know what the added size and record(s)
were for, but ME2 seems to handle residual 5661-ones on my
Windows computers OK).

This has been a learning experience for me (really just a
business user, but a filePro fan and hopeful helpmate for
other filePro users), and I hope as well as for Dennis.

Thanks.

Bob

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