Just so you guys will know... I am transferring the file from the Linux box to Windows via a Samba share. The 'FileSystemWatcher' component of VB.net watches the Samaba directory for any change, then starts my series of programs on the downloaded file.
Another thing: (If it matters) The amount of cr/lf's vs. cr's or lf's needs to be exact in the conversion process. The files I am downloading are print-image medical bills so any stray characters are disastrous to the output. GIGO at its fullest. Did someone say Samba might perform the conversion ? Another work-around, or re-work that I have been considering is this: What about instead of using VB.net to do my processing, using PHP to parse the data into a MySQL table on the server then exporting the completed data to the Samba share? Does anyone know if MySQL will export into a dBase format? ( I have canned programs that must use a dBase input file.) Thanks, Mark. On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:28:51 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Tom Bryan wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:41 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > No, William is right - the ASCII transfer mode will handle any discrepancy > > > between Mac and Linux, but won't handle the fact of its being eventually > > > read on Windows, unless Windows is on one end of the FTP transfer. I > > > hadn't thought of that! > > > > I guess it depends how he's getting fhe files off of the Linux FTP server: > > > > > > >> 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. > > > > If that "download" is another FTP transfer, then it should also be performed > > in ASCII mode. If that doesn't work, then I suppose that we'll hear from > > him > > again soon. :-) > > > > An excellent point! > > ap > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > -- > 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 > -- 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
