RE: C/A File Transfer vs. FTP -- MIDRANGE-L

1-> If you mean what format is the file ending up as... it is a .TXT file.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean by "format".
2-> Ditto #1.  Do you mean ASCII vrs ANSI format?  Either way gives same
results.
3-> Yes, it has always done this (I just checked some other files I download
in the same fashion).  I'm sure this behavior has always been there, it's
just that the people I have SENT these downloaded files to in the past have
never had a problem with that "extra" record marker at the end.  A vendor I
am now working with doesn't like it.  (I'm about to tell him he has to like
it...)
4-> I had not applied any services packs (I'm on Express V4R5M0) so I was a
little behind and just downloaded and applied it.  Still get same results
after download...
5-> (see 4)


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Landess [mailto:steve_landess@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:10 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: C/A File Transfer vs. FTP


1) What format are you using when you transfer the data to the PC?
2) Have you tried different download formats to see if the problem is
specific to a particular file format?
3) Have you experienced this behavior before?
4) Have you applied any service packs to your CAE or PTF's to the AS/400
that could have affected file transfer?
5) If the answer to 4 is NO, are you on the latest service pack for your CAE
release?

Here's the link for IBM's web site for CAE service packs:
 http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/casp.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sannan Solberg" <SSolberg@Washcorp.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: C/A File Transfer vs. FTP


> Noticed something today that has me confused.  I transferred a database
file
> to my PC via C/A and then looked at the file with Notepad.  The last
record
> in my PC file has a small box that appears to be some "end of file" marker
> or something.  If I turn around and FTP the file back to the 400 now
(right
> back into the same file I just downloaded), it get an empty record in my
400
> file.
>
> If I use FTP to bring the file down to the PC, I don't get the marker.  I
> would rather use C/A transfer (because I have to put this in a user's
hands
> and it is dummy-proof) but that marker is causing the people we are
sending
> the file to have a similar problem with getting an "empty" record on their
> end.  Any ideas anybody?  Is it a C/A "problem" because I can't find any
> settings in file transfer that would prevent it...
>
> ***************************************
> Sannan Solberg, Programmer/Analyst
> Washington Corporations        (406) 523-1392
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