That's funny -- I've never seen it where a file was not converted within
ASCII mode.  Are you absolutely sure your text files on Unix are not
bad.  I.E., perhaps you have CR/LF/LF or something within it that only
part of the newline is being converted.

I normally see this problem when folks incorrectly download something
from Unix Binary (or the file is created incorrectly on Unix) and then
when someone FTPs again to another system, they send it as ASCII, which
totally messes up the file.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vicki Jordan
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WS_FTP Forum] How to force file format translation to Unix



Scenario:

Text file extracts are being created from a Unix system (via Oracle
Reports) and saved on an nfs share that is mounted from a Windows system
running Windows Services for Unix. The FTP server is IIS.

The file is picked up using ftp from the Windows system and even setting
the type to ascii retains the Unix NewLine instead of NewLine/CR needed
by the Windows system. IE - we need to get an ftp client to get files
from a Windows server but treat them as if they were coming from an Unix
server.

Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to force the translation from
Unix to Windows format? Typing "acsii" doesn't do it.

We have looked at unix2dos on the Unix side (unworkable) and flip on the
Windows side (again unworkable).

We would like this to be automatic.  I thought that configuring the
wsftp session as Unix would  overcome the problem but it is too clever
and recognises the system as Windows - and therefore does not do the
translation!

Many thanks


Vicki Jordan

Vicki Jordan

Production Systems Manager                          
Information Technology Services
La Trobe University
 

Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.


An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/


Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.


An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/

Reply via email to