On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Lew <lew1716@gmail.com> wrote:

> We just moved our unix server to Solaris. My VFP app routinely consumes text files from unix and we have an ascii command in our ftp scripts to make sure our windows server & my code receive properly cr/lf delimited text files. Now that we've moved to Solaris, however, this command is being ignored.

> Can anyone explain what's up with this or how to fix it?

Sure. UNIXes are not all the same. They have different commands and

dialects. Solaris is one of the West Coast varients (AT&T et al being

the East Coast flavors) and they probably use the command 'unix2dos'

instead of the Linux/AT&T Unix 'ascii' command.

If you can log onto the Solaris box and get a command prompt (they

call it a 'shell'), try typing:

man ascii

and

man unix2dos

and see what you get for results.

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Ted Roche

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