Jim Hughes wrote: >I download files to our Z/VM system in binary. The files on the windows >ftp server are in ascii.
<snip> >This works fine when the records are delimited by '0d0a' or '0a'. >Last night I received a file whose records are delimited by '0d'. Things >broke because the file wasn't deblocked properly. >I am having a hard time visualizing how to cope with records delimited >by '0d' and not mess up what I already have. Normalize, normalize normalize! (Yeah, a strange concept for THIS crowd!) Since they're ASCII, how about: '| change x0d0a x0a *' , '| xlate 0d 0a' , '| split at x0a' , ? ...phsiii
