PB FTP HP-UX -> HP-UX

[Gerald_13]

Hi,
I have a problem to transfert with ftp a ascii file between 2 servers HP-UX OS. I loose one char. (diff file1 file2)
Between HP-UX -> AIX OK and HP-UX --> SUN OK
ftpis in the ascii mode.
Have you got a solution ?
Thanks very much for your help.
Gerald

[Mark Grant]

Have you tried with ftp in binary mode. It's possible that your file isn't as ascii as it seems.

Other than that can you tell us which character you lose.

[KapilRaj]

can't get the root cause. I would try rcp if that is an ascii file

Kaps

[Gerald_13]

Hi,
no because, it's in relation with a software as use only the ascii ftp mode.So I must use the ascii mode. When I do the tranfert manualy HP-UX to HP-UX it's same probleme.
Architecture :
Mainframe (1) -->ebcdic file / convert in ascii file(2) ---> HP-UX (3)--ftp mode ascii(4) ---> HP-UX(5).
pb is in phase 4.

[Mark Grant]

Well, considering the vast majority of ascii transfers that happen on HPUX do not lose characters, I still think we need to eliminate any non ascii characters in your file.

You have done a "diff" on the two files, what was the result?

Have you tried changing the EOF character for the shell doing the ftp receiving and the one doing the sending?

[Gerald_13]

1231264 Jun 22 16:59 F0000051
1231265 Jun 22 16:59 F0000051.sav

The file F0000051.sav is the good file and the file F0000051 is the same file tranfered who loose one char.
result diff :
1023c1023
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---
>

thanks for your help.

[Muthukumar_5]

hai,

You are using ftp with ascii mode on unix as well as non-unix mode. There is a problem on using ascii mode between non-unix and unix as

====== man ftp ===
When cr is on (the default), carriage returns are stripped from this sequence to conform with the UNIX single line-feed record delimiter. Records on non-UNIX remote systems may contain single line-feeds; when an ascii type transfer is made, these line-feeds can be distinguished from a record delimiter only when cr is off.

Regards,
Muthukumar.

[Mark Grant]

Gerald, perhaps a "cat -v" on your diff file wil show something up.