[Info-vax] Streaming a File on OpenVMS with Caché

[Mack Altman III]

> Do we care?  No.  What we care about is what's in the
> file.  Is it text or binary data?
We have both text and binary.


> Apparently, your clients use some kind of FTP client program
> to send the file to your VMS FTP server.
I've said, "Our clients FTP the file to us so we cannot see what their current settings are." If you're referring to the FTP client program used, are you saying that the FTP client (e.g. CMD, FileZilla, FireFTP, etc.) matters?



> Is the file being transferred in text/ASCII or binary
> mode?
I've said, "As far as we go with the FTP process is telling them to use ASCII/BIN." That said, we can advise them to transmit via either. 


> I'm guessing from "Record format: Variable length"
> that it's a text/ASCII transfer.
If you can let me know how I'm supposed to be able to determine whether the file is ASCII or BIN without asking the person who uploaded the file, I could definitely let you know. Otherwise, you're assumption is as good as mine.

At this moment, I have a BIN file with the following DIR/FULL. In doing a DUMP/REC, each record is terminated at 512 bytes. When reading the file, the CR,LF also terminates the record.
TESTFILE.DONE;1               File ID:  (4262,122,0)
Size:          643/1152       Owner:    [TEST]
Linkcount:  1
File organization:  Sequential
Shelved state:      Online
Caching attribute:  Writethrough
File attributes:    Allocation: 1152, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0
                    No version limit
Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records
Record attributes:  None
RMS attributes:     None
Journaling enabled: None
File protection:    System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RE, World:
Access Cntrl List:  None
Client attributes:  None