Re: FTP Format -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: FTP Format
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:04:09 -0600
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On 11/15/2011 8:58 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

My question to the group is: Isn't FTP just a character-by-character
transmission? That is, the item number may be 1-5 numbers (1-99999).
If only '1' is transmitted, would not that mean that everything gets
PUT into the wrong locations of an SQL DDL file on our system in that
case?

The file that is transferred to the host would have to have some kind of format ... it could be fixed format, csv, etc.

You just need to determine what the actual format is in order to parse it. If it's fixed format, you won't have a lot to do.

david

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