I don't think ftp is supposed to know/handle things like that. There was
a thread on this (~1 year ago iirc), you can check the archives. We do
this regularly (every 30 min) by first converting the text files with a
program (QD c-source avaliable on request, customized for our needs:
roman8 to ANSI, swedish chars etc.).
Performance of such a program may vary, of course, especially if your
files are *huge* (this program timed less than 2 sec for 13000+ lines of
80 bytes in heavy production).

hth
/per
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> I have a file in which some of the fields contain mixed case text
items en
> français with accented characters. Using FTP to put this on an NT
server
> results in junk - tried binary, tried ascii, no luck. OTOH, Refection
file
> transfer has an option on the setup screen, WRQ tab titled 'transfer
link'
> which, when set to 7 bits, allows the deconstruction and subsequent
> reconstruction of the accented characters. Is there any way to
accomplish
> this with FTP? The file will be moved regularly, is quite big and is
created
> in the middle of the night in batch -- I would much rather use FTP
than
> fiddling with Reflection.
>  
> John Pickering
> Toronto
>