I suggest using dos2unix to convert it to Unix format. Clive On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Roy Beard <r...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> NO joy! > > # cd /dbms > # ls -l master > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 54683259 Nov 08 18:16 master > # string master > newmaster > ksh: string: not found. > # > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Goble > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:09 PM > To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' > Subject: Re: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine. > > Try using at the unix command line > > String filename > newfilenamer > > This will strip out all control characters > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roy Beard [mailto:r...@cfl.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 05:05 PM > To: 'U2 Users List' <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > Subject: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine. > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to read a Unix file from and old aix machine. The people who > sent it will not bend in how they sent it. > > What I got was in binary format so I used 'od' to convert it to ascii. > When > I tried to cat the file before trying to READSEQ records it looked like > gibberish! > > I realized that if I set my Term type to vt100, I could read it but the > carriage returns were just ^M after each record. After trying 'sed' I gave > up. > > > > Universe will not read the file at all. I still get gibberish even on the > converted file. > > > > Any ideas? There must be a way to do this. What am I missing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Roy > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Clive -- 077222971491 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
