On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:10:17 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: > >If you don’t like EBCDIC go play in the ASCII world. > Oh, I do! this forum is conducted in ASCII, isn't it?
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:14:01 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >> scp is universally outside z/OS a binary transfer protocol which knows >> nothing whatsoever of the content it transfers. >> >Which screws the pooch when transferring "printable" text files between >Windows & *IX because of Windows' use of CRLF as a composite end-of-line >indicator. Windows -> *IX leaves a ^M (CR) as part of the "data" in a text >file. *IX -> lacks the CR which is required by many Windows programs >(Notepad being the main one I know of). > Last time I tried Notepad it showed UNIX files in staircase mode. Of course, I haven't tried it since. Wordpad is 50% better. It understands UNIX files on input but always saves as DOS. Notepad++ accepts DOS, UNiX and Classic Mac files and saves by default in the input format. Or the user can select the output format. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
