Are you talking about the length of the lines in your text file not being over 80 chars. long? If so, this is from way back in the good old days when the punch cards used to program the computers were 80 chars. wide. Also, COBOL has some issues with certain things being in certain columns and only so many (80) chars. wide, for a similar reason.
If you are uploading a text file to a mainframe that is going to be read by some legacy app., written in COBOL or something, then this makes sense. If that's not what you are talking about, I have no idea. Glad it's working though. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hannum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Re: CFFTP and 80 byte wide files > It's mainframe jibbirish - I don't understand other that the mainfram > formats to 255 bytes wide unless you specify otherwise. That's what they > tell me. Anyway, you overcome this with arguements sent with your FTP, so > I'm doing it via CFEXECUTE and the Windows FTP so I can pass it the command > to make the file stay 80 bytes wide. I don't really understand except that > it is working now. > > Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
