Re: Controlling end-of-record on FTP'ed files

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark -

>   I spoke to IBM about the situation.  Apparently, a decision was made
> about the "native / QSYS.LIB FTP extensions" that they would always add the
> CR/LF as the EOR delimiters when going from a QSYS.LIB file to an ASCII (or
> maybe it's only Unix) system.

IIRC, the standards for FTP ASCII processing require the sending system to 
convert from its end-of-line/end-of-record format to CR+LF, and the 
receiving system to convert from CR+LF to its end-of-line/end-of-record format.

So in ASCII mode there is always going to be a CR+LF delimiter.  If the 
receiving system is Windoze, it will stay as CR+LF.  If it is Linux, Unix, 
etc., it will be changed to just LF.  If it is a Mac, it will be changed to 
just CR (I think).

If the receiving system is an iSeries/AS/400, it will depend on what file 
hierarchy it is going into, etc.

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