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vivek · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: FTP Problem

when I FTP a file from mainframe to windows. It appears as junk
File Attrib is below

Bithead · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

Please post your FTP script.

kolusu · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

vivek,

I don't see any junk values in the DCB parameters.

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vivek · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject:

Kolusu, I am not able to figure out where the problem occurs. similar ftps of different other files are fine. only this has problem.

whatever mode of ftp i used , the result was same.

i did was

windows start menu -> run -> cmd

type ftp mainframe-ip

user id
password

get 'dataset name' pc-filename.txt

I was wondering if the dcb parameters had something to do with it.

onething i noted on pc side was, when i oepned the file in notepad , i was at the beginning of the file and pressed the end key it went to the beginning of the next row instead of going to the end of line.
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superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

I'd love to see a hex dump of the Windows file that shows at least the first 1367 bytes of data.

vivek · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject:

superk,

it appeared junk only when opened in notepad. it didnot when i opened in dos edit or MS word or something. I would just leave it as it is.

thanks
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taltyman · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

Usually when notepad tries to open a file and has problems I try wordpad next.

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

You are probably looking at EBCDIC characters on an ASCII machine (your system is defaulting to BINary transfer). Add TYPE A or add ASCII before the GET.