In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
09/09/2005
at 09:37 AM, "Low, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>A user asked if it's possible to remove or correctly translate what
>appears to be ^M characters (ascii code 37) from an ascii text file
>transferred to z/OS.
There are at least four different conventions for line endings on PC
and Unix text files: CR, LF, CRLF and NL[1]. FTP can handle some
conversions when in ASCII mode. You could also use iconv or tr after
the file transfer.
[1] A real NL, not a CR incorrectly referred to as NL.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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