Well the OP was transferring the file in binary mode instead of ASCII (text), so there won't have been any character translation or end-of-line delimiting.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: 25 February 2009 17:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File Transfer Issue Is it possible that there may be come character encoding/translation issues that would end up garbling the file as it passes from tinkertoyland to Big Iron? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bri P Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File Transfer Issue In essence, Base64 encoding.. Turning binary data into graphic ASCII. For some reason, in PGP circles particularly, they call it 'ASCII-Armored'. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
