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From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z with PCNFS ftp and unix2dos
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Date: 27 Jun 91 15:34:39 GMT
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Quoth drezac@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) (in <1134@dcsc.dla.mil>):
#
#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.)

Ctrl-Z at EOF is pretty much an anachronism. Few DOS tools append Ctrl-Z to
files; still fewer expect it. (I don't know of any Microsoft program
that does either.) 

What's the date on your copy of Enable?

--Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect(geoff@East.Sun.COM or geoff.arnold@Sun.COM)--
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