Andrew Cartledge wrote:

> It may be I dont understand what bytestreams are but I interpret them as
> just one long string of characters no delimiters.

as reasonable way of thinking....

> I am doing a get, when I do an ASCII get it simply takes the first 372
> chars and truncates the following 11000 odd (this is only a test file and
> could get much much bigger). The BYTESTREAM get appears to retrieve all the
> chars

i think to preserve the integrity of your file, you do want to ftp to your 3000
as a bytestream file.

as you've discovered, however, turning the beastie into something more
mpe-friendly can be a real challenge.  frombyte is wonderful....as long as
you're dealing with 80-byte records (ha!)  (btw -- hp was asked sometime ago to
'enable' (i won't say fix :-) frombyte to work with any file....but....)  so
what's a person to do?  we've had a fair amount of luck with using ftp (a 2nd
time) to chunk the file into fixed length records.  it's been awhile...but i
think it was something along the lines of opening an ftp session on your
local/mpe box and doing a send with the proper ';rec=....' stuff tacked onto
the end.  give it try...it can't hurt....                - d

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