I am over my self-imposed daily limit on IBM-MAIN replies and it's not even 08:00 yet. However, I see no reason to "enhance" ftp. In fact, I think the capability to convert to/from ASCII is misguided (as it's used by mistake as often as on purpose - see above).
Do whatever it takes to create the actual data set you want to transmit, *then* invoke ftp to transmit it. -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
