On Tuesday, 05/01/2007 at 02:54 AST, Eddie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Few months ago, our network people found that FTP in binary( during > peak time) are 4 time faster than ASCII to Unix servers. > > Last week I took a look at the vsftp source and modify the source to > accept "type e" and let Linux do the translation to EBCDIC. > This Sunday, I send the CMSNUC MAP in "type a", "type e" and "type > I". And found there is no difference in CPU usage and the time > it takes to complete. > > Is there any benefit of having the non-IBM platform to do the > EBCDIC translation?
None that I can think of. In fact, I think it's a Bad Idea. Which code pages for ASCII and EBCDIC did you select? The VM ftp client and server both have support for user selection of the translation table, with over 200 combinations to choose from, plus the ability to add your own. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
