I have a customer that sends files to my ftp site (currently on a Windows Server box) from his Mac platform. The files are nothing special, just delimited text files. However they can be very large. (i.e. 100,000 records or 75MB) The problem is this: When I switched the ftp server to my Linux box, my Windows conversion programs no longer worked. After much looking, I found the reason was that the files sent from the Mac had each line in the data termintated with a hex '0A'. When placed on the windows box the file magically converted itself somehow to have a '0D' '0A', asc(13) asc(10), or cr/lf pair terminating each line. So, to make my long story short, when I download files from my Windows box, my VB programs can use them, but when I download them from my Linux server my programs crash. (Because of the missing '0D' - VB wants to have a line terminated by a cr/lf to use the LINE INPUT command.) What do you think would be the easiest, and most importantly *non-interactive* way to handle this problem?
Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Mark. ------ "I told them I'd ridden shooting stars and said I'd show them how..." --Ozzy -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
