Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:29:59 -0500 From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" <chad@pengar.com> To: "Fee, Doug" <doug.fee@unisys.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FTP to Mainframe Question Message-ID: <3430455996.982682999@[192.168.99.123]> In-Reply-To: <ABBC508F9A30D3119E7200105A1770FBFAE418@us-fft-exch-1.frf.unisys.com>
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Hi Do a ftp> bin command which tells it to send as a binary file instead of an ascii file. FTP will do end of line correction on ascii files depending on what sort of host server you are running. Chad --On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:10 PM -0600 "Fee, Doug" <doug.fee@unisys.com> wrote: > Does anyone know how to strip off the newline character from each record > when sending a file to a mainframe? For example, > > I have a file on my FreeBSD box that is fixed length and I need to ftp it > to my mainframe. If I ftp it normally (after running it through dd to > convert it from ascii to ebcdic) when I look at the data set on the > mainframe I have my newline character also, it shows up as a period (.). > > I need to get rid of the newline characters since the mainframe don't use > them. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Doug Fee > Network Design Engineer > Unisys Corporation > doug.fee@unisys.com > 502-226-2143 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting Chad Leigh chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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