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Re: Help with junk characters

From: News <Contact_404_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 4 Nov 2005 00:59:52 -0800
Message-ID: <1131094792.168909.72600@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>


It worked when I opened the generated .dat file with ultraedit, copy and paste the whole text into new file. I have no explanation. I'm tired of windows..

Laurenz Albe a écrit :
> Ah, the problem becomes much clearer.
>
> First thing I would want you to try is to open both the .dat file that
> does not transfer properly and the single line file that does with the
> same text editor, Windows notepad for example.
>
> Then see if the lines are really identical.
>
> Even better would be to use a hex editor to verify that the line is the same
> in both files.
>
> If you are positive that the line is the same byte sequence in both files,
> test the file transfer as follows:
>
> Don't use any funky tools, use plain command line ftp:
>
> ftp unixhost
> ftp> bin
> ftp> put bigfile.dat
> ftp> put onelinefile
> ftp> quit
>
> Then verify that the two lines in the transferred files on the UNIX machine
> are the same - use 'more' or 'less' or (even better) 'od'.
>
> Once this works, all you have to do is find out which of your Windows tools
> and gadgets messes up the files. Configure it appropriately or use other
> tools.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
Received on Fri Nov 04 2005 - 02:59:52 CST

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