Hello !

I read Raghuram Bharathan’s article in the November issue of «Interact»
on FTP on the
HP3000 with great interest. However I did not get the answer to an
important question to us.
We are using FTP on the HP3000 to send files created by COBOL programs
to
update pages on our WEB-site residing on a UNIX host.
We are running MPE-iX 5.5 Power Patch 5.
These files are «flat MPE-files» with HTML tagging and a recordlength of
132 characters.
Our problem is that the recordlength on the targetfile has increased
from 132 characters to
200 + after being transferred.

One of the important objectives in creating files for the Internet is
limiting the size of the files
given today’s bandwidth.

Why are spaces added to the end of each record ?
Is there a way of eliminating this - defining the recordlength of the
target file ?

I would appreciate an solution to this and
look forward to an answer from someone out there - thanks !

Ola Kristiansen
Det Norske Travselskap
Postboks 194, Økern
N-0510 OSLO
NORWAY