How's this? "No." On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM Bob Bridges < [email protected]> wrote:
> Ten replies not counting the OP's, and NOT A SINGLE responder actually > addressed his question?! > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of > Phil Smith III > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 11:24 > > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
