topic FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Kiran_27 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:47:46 GMT

Hi All,

When I am transferring Arabic data from a machine to HP UX machines (B.11.11 U 9000/800 ) , certain fields are getting swapped. I am not sure why it is happening. On contacting the source ( from where the FTP started ) they told me it is the problem of HP PAGE CODE. Could any one tell me the following

1) What is HP PAGE CODE ?
2) What is the effect of PAGE CODE in FTP transfer?
3) Will there be any way that the fields get swapped because of PAGE CODE error ??

Regards
Kiran

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:18:41 GMT

Hi,

are they using binary mode for transfer?

greetings,

Michael

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Mark Greene_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:12:23 GMT

see the man page for "locale" and "lang":

man 1 local

man 5 lang

for all the details on language support as installed on your system.

mark

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Kiran_27 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:06:48 GMT

I am transfering the data in Binary mode.
Certain Arabic fields are getting swapped during transfer. I just want to know what is this page code , what this has to do with FTP Transfer and what is the Page code for HP UX.
Regards
Kiran

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:18:17 GMT

Perhaps you could be so kind as to provide an example.

Certain fields are being swapped?

The Arabic itself, I can't read, but ftp doesn't change data.

If the data is ascii and you are transferring it binary, or vice versa, characters can be added to the last line of data.

Since I can't read the Arabic, I'd recommend you try the transfer ascii and see if that helps.

SEP

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Kiran_27 — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:57:27 GMT

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:19:31 GMT

hi,

can you try compressing the file before FTPing and check what what happens?

regards
Yogeeraj

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Kiran_27 — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:06:18 GMT

Can any one tell me what is this PAGE CODE........ Is there anything like that ???

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:09:30 GMT

It is not clear what they are referring to. I've checked several resources and can't find anything. Have a look at google, google newsgroups, www.docs.hp.com, etc. and you'll find the same results.

Are you receiving an error during the ftp?
If not, can you ask the source to ellaborate on page code. It's likely to be called something else.

Possibly you don't have Arabic language support on the HP machine? See http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4f075f938a10d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:26:30 GMT

Kiran,

how do you see that something is switched?

greetings,

Michael

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Mark Greene_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:15:52 GMT

PAGE CODE is a Windows term. There is single item counterpart in HP, you have to read the man pages I referenced above to see if you have full support for Arabic on your system.

mark

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Bill Hassell — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:08:58 GMT

PAGE CODE is probably CODEPAGE and is a Windows-only concept with no meaning for ftp since ftp is platform neutral. Now some platforms (Windows, mainframes, etc) may have additional features like file types, but basic HP-UX has no file types and has no concept of fields. There are only two transfer methods: BINARY which is an exact copy of what was sent, and ASCII where the data is assumed to be in ASCII on the source, transferred in a format-neutral method and the destination will format the data stream as required for the local machine.

In Windows, ASCII files have CR+LF characters at the end of every line while in Unix, the end of a line is just LF. ASCII handles this conversion, while BINARY copies exactly what was sent.

The transfer you are seeing on HP-UX is WYSIWYG (exactly what the PC sent). On the PC side, you may need to display the file locally with a dumb editor like Notepad. That way you can see exactly what is in the records. I know of no standard data transfer program that understands fields at all. As far as I know, Windows CODEPAGE is only for character set conversion (see http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.mspx)

Re: FTP ing Arabic data and PAGE CODE

Bill Hassell — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:59:55 GMT

The link is http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.mspx

There is a trailing ) in the previous posting that became part of the URL link.