Well, on linux/unix a command line of curl -O <url> downloads a file or page in binary mode.
What curl command line are you issuing? -----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 28, 2016 6:05 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: curl is Rocket science. > >Trying to use curl: > >user@OS/390.25.00: ls -lTHE /team/rocket/cURL/bin/curl > >- untagged T=off -rwxr-xr-x --s- ---- 1 OMVSKERN SYS1 17735680 Feb >11 2016 /team/rocket/cURL/bin/curl > >user@OS/390.25.00: /team/rocket/cURL/bin/curl --version > >curl 7.42.1 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/7.42.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2c zlib/1.2.8 >iconv libssh2/1.4.3 nghttp2/1.0.1 >Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp >sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp >Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz CharConv TLS-SRP HTTP2 >UnixSockets Metalink > >... to download an IBM fixtest, I got junk: >user@OS/390.25.00: cat AA51501.HIF7P02 | od -tx1 | head >0000000000 EF EF 85 AB 85 8D EB 85 85 77 C9 77 2C C9 B8 4F > >... but with *two* successive EBCDIC-to-ASCII translations, success: >user@OS/390.25.00: cat AA51501.HIF7P02 | e2a | e2a | od -tx1 | head >0000000000 4E 4E C1 D7 C1 D9 4D C1 C1 F5 F1 F5 F0 F1 5D 40 > + + A P A R ( A A 5 1 5 0 1 ) > >WTF!? Surely this isn't working as designed. > >I hate EBCDIC! > >-- gil >:q! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
