>From bruce . furber:
> I want to use wget to transfer files from an IBM mainframe FTP server
> which stores files in EBCDIC to Linux on our S390X machine.
>
> Even though I use the type=a option, the files are transferred in Binary
> (EBCDIC). The .listing files are OK in ASCII.
As wget 1.10.2 is written (and "-d" should show), specifying
";type=a" will request an ASCII transfer ("TYPE A") instead of the
default IMAGE transfer ("TYPE I"), but the standard wget code does not
process the received data properly. That is, it does not adjust the
line endings, and it certainly does no EBCDIC-ASCII code conversion.
(Not adjusting the line endings does allow it to do "-c" continuation
easily, which would be either unreliable or very difficult if the data
were processed properly upon receipt.)
My VMS-compatible wget 1.10.2c will adjust the line endings (for a
UNIX or VMS host -- I don't care about "-c"), but that still won't
convert EBCDIC to ASCII.
Of course, everything depends on what the FTP _server_ does when it
gets a request for an ASCII transfer. Assuming that wget really _is_
requesting ASCII and you're still getting EBCDIC, then you're probably
doomed to use some external EBCDIC-ASCII code converter program.
Example "-d" output showing default and "type=a" behavior:
alp $ wget -d ftp://alp-l/wget/wget-1_9_1e_vms/vms_notes.txt
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2c built on VMS V7.3-2.
--23:10:29-- ftp://alp-l/wget/wget-1_9_1e_vms/vms_notes.txt
=> `vms_notes.txt'
[...]
257 "SYS$SYSDEVICE:[ANONYMOUS]" is current directory.
done.
==> TYPE I ...
--> TYPE I
200 TYPE set to IMAGE.
[...]
While, on the othet hand:
alp $ wget -d ftp://alp-l/wget/wget-1_9_1e_vms/vms_notes.txt;type=a
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2c built on VMS V7.3-2.
--23:10:11-- ftp://alp-l/wget/wget-1_9_1e_vms/vms_notes.txt;type=a
=> `vms_notes.txt'
[...]
257 "SYS$SYSDEVICE:[ANONYMOUS]" is current directory.
done.
==> TYPE A ...
--> TYPE A
200 TYPE set to ASCII.
[...]
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