transfer filePro file from dos to unix

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

Both boxes are "little endian". I FTP'd in binary (through TinyTerm - maybe 
that's the problem). Did a chmod and chown. Still got the error I reported.

I will try the "xfer" approach.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: transfer filePro file from dos to unix


Quoting Dennis Malen (Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:57:19 -0400):

> Wow! Thanks for the in depth response and great tutorial on my
> problem. Should be saved for future use when this issue arises again.
>
> I will try each your suggestions. I am sure one your suggestions will
> work.   Your have made it extremely clear and I am sure I will be able
> to develop a resolution.
[...]

To summarize:

     Screens are a binary file, and therefore require you to copy them in
     binary mode.

     If copying from Windows to a little-endian *nix box, the screen will
     be usable once you:

         Bring it up in dscreen, dismiss the checksum error popup, update
         the screen, fix the graphics characters, and re-save it.

If you get an "invalid screen format" error upon bringing it up in dscreen,
then either:

     The copy from Windows to *nix corrupted the file, such as by using a
     text-mode (sometimes called "ascii mode") copy.
or
     The *nix box is not little-endian.

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