Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dan Bale wrote:

> Anybody know about how Unix does Line Feeds and Carriage Returns?  We've got

Unix only uses LF and not CR (or maybe I have it backwards - uses CR and
not LF - I can never remember right).

> a file from a Unix system that we want to load to the 400.  On our Windoze
> PC, the "records" of data all show up on one line.  I recognize that this is
> a stream file, but there's a funny looking character at the end of each
> "record".  If I can determine the hex value of that LF-CR character, is

Hmm... I usually see this when I look at a PC file on a unix box.  The
extra CR shows up as ^M.  I believe that some programs handle the
differences with no problems.  Notepad may not but I think Wordpad does.
Likewise on unix, emacs and vi show the ^M character but Open Office has
no problem.  Emacs has a LF-CR compatibility mode and there is a way to
strip the CR off the end of the lines on unix, but I don't remember right
now.

> there a way to import the stream file from the PC to an AS400 file on a V3R2
> system that does not have Client Access?

Um, ftp?  Forget all about the LF-CR crap and ftp directly from the unix
box.  This is easy from the unix shell:

$ ftp myas400.mydomain.com
<username>
<password>
cd QSYS.LIB/LIBRARY.LIB
put myfile FILE.MEMBER

James Rich
james@eaerich.com