Test your assumption by performing some manner of CRC on the files
before and after transit. If you can perform an md5 checksum on AIX,
Redhat will have a compatible program called md5sum. But realistically,
ftp file transfer should have nil affect on the files.

-Mike Doyle
Unix Developer / Administrator
AMO Recoveries


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 09:42 -0500, Sirulnick, Steve wrote:
> I am migrating an old AIX server running U2 to RH Linux.  Because of the
> server's limitations, I need to transfer files between the two devices via
> FTP and then converting the files for Linux use.  After doing so, my
> distributed files are getting corrupted. It looks like the IBM provided
> fixtool utility repairs the files, but it's taking way too long for my
> larger distributed files.  Making a HUGE assumption that it's the file
> transfer responsible for the file corruption, is there a preferred method
> for copying data files?
> 
>  
> 
> Steve
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