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From: drezac@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Ctrl-Z with PCNFS ftp and unix2dos
Message-ID: <1134@dcsc.dla.mil>
Date: 26 Jun 91 18:52:41 GMT
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Organization: Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus
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We are using PC-NFS to access our unix machines (Goulds). We
frequently transfer data in ASCII from the unix to dos for use
in database applications. One of our software packages (Enable)
expects an ascii file to end with Ctrl-Z (0x1A).  When we ftp 
from the unix using ascii mode, the crlf translaton occurs, but
no Ctrl-Z is placed at the end of the file. The same thing ocuurs if 
we ftp in binary and use unix2dos to convert the file. 
My question is: 

Should PC-NFS add the Ctrl-Z to the end of the file in ascii mode? 

or is this just an funky quirk that the database package needs the
Ctrl-Z at the end of the file. 
(only Enable seems to care - the other database progams (DBASEIII+)
do not seem to care if the Ctrl-Z is there or not.)


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Verse of the Hour:
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
    Ps. 9:17

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