I doubt that's what's happening.  If you FTP in binary mode, no bytes will
be translated.
Either
  (1) The characters exist before you transfer
  (2)  The characters are added by you doing something after you transfer
or, most likely,
  (3) The extra characters are not there.  How are you looking at the file?
Did you use FCOPY;HEX or /bin/od to really look at the individual bytes?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rothwell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:31 PM
Subject: Binary file from HP UX to 3000 box.


> I searched in dejanews for this and didn't find anything, so I'm hoping
> that someone out there will be able to help me.
>
> I'm writing a file that contains binary data ( Cobol COMP3 format ) on
> an HP UX box.  I need to be able to transfer this file to a HP 3000 box,
> but when I do the data does not appear correctly on the 3000.  On UX the
> field containing the COMP3 formatted data has special control characters
> in it ( ie:  ^L ) that appears as 2 chars but in reallity is only a
> single char.  When it gets to the 3000, it actually shows up as 2 chars
> instead of 1 as it should.  I've tried FTPing the file in binary format,
> and using Batchnet to transmit the file.
>
> If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Michael.
>