readblk ? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Windsor Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Data truncation
Spoke too soon! All I have to do is work out how to tell UniVerse to leave the binary data alone when I read it from cURL temporary output file. As it is UniVerse adds 6Kb worth of hex 0Ds before hex 0As. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Windsor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Data truncation : Thanks Larry! : : I had "curl -s -o filename URL" and it would NOT work, try as I might. : I swapped things arguments around and all sorts. Played around with : the filename etc. The URL wasn't very long and I was GETting not : POSTing. : : In desperation I changed it to (as you suggested) : : curl --fail --silent --output filename --url URL : : IT WORKED!!!! : : I can't explain it. It works now so I'm going to leave it alone! : : Thanks, : : Louis : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Larry Hiscock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:52 PM : Subject: RE: [U2] Data truncation : : : : One thing I've noticed with curl -- if you have a long URL or a lot of : data : : to post, packing it all onto the command line sometimes fails. I think it : : gets too long for the command interpreter to deal with. : : : : What I've had good success with is writing curl options to a file, and : then : : invoking curl with the -K option. I use the longer format of the curl : : options, and generally use the following: curl --fail --silent --output : : <filename> --url URL : : : : I've done this on both Unix/Linux and Windows platforms with good success. : : : : Larry Hiscock : : Western Computer Services : : : : : : -----Original Message----- : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Windsor : : Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:03 PM : : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Subject: Re: [U2] Data truncation : : : : : : I am EXECUTE ... CAPTURING VARIABLE. : : : : I have done this heaps of times with text and it works beautifully. : : : : I tried lots of different ways to make cURL output to a file and always : : failed. : : : : Even the straightforward curl -s URL -o <filename> : : : : I even posted a question on the cURL website sometime ago but didn't : : get a reasonable response. I suspect they are a little intolerant of : : newbie's or : : unusual environments (UniVerse). : : : : Louis : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : : From: "Larry Hiscock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:13 PM : : Subject: RE: [U2] Data truncation : : : : : : : How exactly are you capturing the output from curl? Curl has an option : to : : : direct it's output to a file instead of stdout (--output filename). You : : : might try sending the output to a flat file in a directory that's : defined : : as : : : a "dir" type file in UV. Then you can simply open the file and read the : : : item in your program. : : : : : : Larry Hiscock : : : Western Computer Services : : : : : : : : : -----Original Message----- : : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Windsor : : : Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:21 PM : : : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : Subject: [U2] Data truncation : : : : : : : : : I apologise if this question has been asked before but I tried searching : : in : : : the u2ug but could not find anything. : : : : : : I execute a DOS (cURL) function and get back binary data. I expect : about : : : 832Kb but aparently the data gets truncated at hex 1A0A : : : which is converted to hex 0D0A. : : : : : : I am fairly sure this is being done by UniVerse (on WinXP) as the : execute : : : takes about the right time to download the 832Kb. : : : : : : Are there any OPTIONS directives or SYSTEM commands I can set to prevent : : the : : : truncation? : : : : : : TIA : : : : : : Louis : : : ------- : : : u2-users mailing list : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users : : : ------- : : : u2-users mailing list : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users : : : : : ------- : : u2-users mailing list : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users : : ------- : : u2-users mailing list : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users : : : ------- : u2-users mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users : ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. 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