A customer just had a problem uploading some service we'd released. It was an XMIT file, and they did transfer it as binary F 80, but TSO RECEIVE was failing. After some tinkering and comparing screenshots of the file, they eventually found that they had "the CR/LF option" checked in their emulator, which they called "the Rocket emulator" (I suspect that is/was BlueZone). They sent a screenshot that shows the file transfer options: Binary vs. text, plus checkboxes for Append and CR/LF.
My question is: Can you devise a scenario where a binary transfer "with CR/LF" makes sense? I can't even think how it would decide where to put them in--it's just a byte stream! The only linends are whatever the native platform uses, but if it's binary those wouldn't seem to me to be meaningful. And of course a binary file could well have those bytes in the data. Maybe I'm missing something obvious [as usual]? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
