Fw: error

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Robert Pulliam M.D. (Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:43:59 -0500):
>
>     Using Unix and filepro.  Create export file in the unix machine
> using the  command   export word tel = (gb).  The file is created
> properly.  I then either doscp to a floppy or using Anziowin ftp the
> file to a Windows machine.   If I read the file in notepad there is a
> small square in the first place of the last line of the file not in the
> last record - this is a chr(26) character.  This character prevents
> loading or importing this file into a phonetree program. The file name
> is AO011107.002.   I can remove this character in notepad and the file
> works fine but if I don't the file will not import as above.  How do I
> eliminate this character in the file creation or in the ftp process or
> in the loading process to notepad.

filePro doesn't put the Ctrl-Z there, and I've never seen an ftp
client add one.  (It's been too many years since I've used doscp
to say one way or the other.)

Are you sure you don't have something in your processing to put a
Ctrl-Z after the last record?

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