"Glenn J. Koster, Sr." wrote:
> "Paveza, Gary" wrote:
>
> > If they are text files you could do an mget * and then after your ftp,
> > you could go into the shell and do something like this:
> >
> > cat * > newname
>
> Thanks for the input. The concept works fine, except the resultant file
> is left as a byte-stream file that is not accessible without further
> intervention on my part. The other alternative that was supplied worked
> like a charm without having to do any file type changes.
pretending that all the merged files are of the same record width.... we
ran into a similar situation awhile back. we used ftp to 're-recordize' the
bytestream file. maybe this would help? - d
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