RE: Getting SaveFile from PC World to the AS/400 via CA/Win

[Bob Crothers <bcrothers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad & Others who have answered this,

Thanks for the very prompt replyies.  I guess that is one good 
benefit of a very active mailing list!  Folks are reading and 
responding on it 24 hours a day.

Bottom line being that the trick is to do the CRTPF RCDLEN(528) 
and do the CAWin file xfer to that.  Then use RPG pgm to copy 
the records to the savf and viola!  It works.

Just as a note, you can skip the crtpf and rpg pgm if you are 
using FTP.  Just make sure the save file exists prior to the 
FTP, it has been cleared, and you do a binary transfer.  You can 
then just restore from it.  But, not everybody is on the TCP/IP 
bandwagon yet so I will file this in my bag of tricks!

Thanks to all,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications

-----Original Message-----
From:   Stone, Brad V (TC) [SMTP:bvstone@Taylorcorp.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, December 09, 1997 6:44 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: Getting SaveFile from PC World to the AS/400 via 
CA/Win

Create a physical file on the 400 with a record length of 528. 
 Copy the
data from the PC into this file.  Create a save file on the 400. 
 Write a
program to read from the physical and write to the save file. 
 Restore.
 Done.

Bradley V. Stone
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/

 ----------
From:  Bob Crothers
Sent:  Tuesday, December 09, 1997 5:36 PM
To:  bvstone
Subject:  Getting SaveFile from PC World to the AS/400 via 
CA/Win


I sent a client a Save File via Internet Email.  This save file
was created on the AS/400 via normal methods (CRTSAVF & SAVOBJ).

I then FTP'd down to the PC world.  I can then FTP it back to
another AS/400 and it works just fine (the trick is to create
the save file first).

I then Email'd the file from my PC via the Internet.  My client
does not have TCP/IP available so FTP is not an option.  He is
trying to use CAWin/95.  When he does the file transfer, he gets
a message that says  "Not a Valid Database File".   If he
creates a plain old flat file (crtpf rcdlen(xxxx)), it
transfers, but of course is no longer a save file so can not do
a rstobj on it.

My question being, What is the trick to getting  this to work
via CAWin?

Unimportantly, starting TCP/IP on his as/400 is not an option.

TIA

Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications



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