Re: transfer txt-files to VMS, please help.

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_istop.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:06:55 -0500

David Froble wrote:
> If you desire the second example, then I'd try to do a BINARY transfer. FTP
> HELP will show you how to do this.

No, that can't be that simple. A binary transfer won't transform a readable
stream of bytes into gibberish.

If the text file was somwhoe transformed into "gibberish" that was usable for
some bar code printer, then some software/program would have kicked in
somewhere along the line to transform the plain text file into the gibberish format.

One possibility, which seems to have been done fairly often is to have a
process on VMS that is contantly running and looking for files recently
deposited to a directory by FTP and the process those files.

So your wintel box would deposit the text files, and a couple minutes later,
the process would convert them to binary gibberish and delete the original
text file to ensure it isn't processed again.

If that process isn't started, then it would explain why your files stay in
text format after being downloaded to the VMS host.

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