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- Subject: FWD: RE: Setting file attributes during put FTP operation
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- From: mcmahon@TGV.COM (Midnight at U Street Metro Station)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 08:24:20 PST
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 7:39:33 -0600 (CST)
- From: RAS@GV3.CACD.CR.ROCKWELL.COM
- Message-Id: <930121073933.22001442@GV3.CACD.CR.ROCKWELL.COM>
- Subject: RE: Setting file attributes during put FTP operation
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- > I have a user that currently uses PCSA to copy a file from a PC to
- >the VAX. The file must be in a specific format when it arrives on the VAX.
- >The format is variable length and either 510 or 250 bytes for each record.
- >
- > . . .
- >
- > What I would like is for the user to be able to use FTP to send the
- >file from the PC to the VAX. I need to be able to specify the file attributes
- >as above so other programs that rely on that format need not change. Is there
- >a way to do this? I am using MultiNet 3.1
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- We've run into similar problems and have tried to use CONVERT to change
- the file characteristics on the VAXen side. However, two problems have
- occurred:
- 1) CONVERT doesn't always change record size,
- 2) CONVERT can take forever to process the file.
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- We've had much better luck using EXCHANGE/NETWORK to change the file
- characteristics, especially when records are resized. Although the
- documentation indicates that the utility is used to transfer files to
- remote nodes, just don't specify a remote node in the output file name
- and it will work like CONVERT, but much faster. EXCHANGE/NETWORK also
- uses an FDL descriptor file in the same manner as CONVERT.
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- Bob Schneider
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