IBM Mainframe Forum

Hi,

I am creating a zip file with two files in it in mainframe and ftp'ing the zip file to Unix server. When i open the file after unzipping it in Unix server with Vi editor, there are ^M characters at the end of each and every line.

I cannot use shell scripting in Unix server because the zip file that we are creating in mainframe would be ftp'ed to external vendor and they are not ready to change the process on their end. Is there any way that we can eliminate these ^M characters in zip file.
Can we replace the carriage return with spaces before zipping the file in mainframe? But when i view the file in HEX ON mode, it is showing up as follows.


How do i find out the carriage return here.

Please help me.

Thanks

Hello,

Suggest you look in the pk documentation (or open a trouble call to pkware support) for a way to suppress the newline insertion. It may happen on the zip or the unzip.

You've noticed that there are no "control characters" in the mainframe data - they are being added by pkzip or unzip. When the binary file is transfered, ftp does not know where the records start/end, so ftp would not be the cause of the inserted control characters.

Also, please notice that your data has been "Code"ed - which makes a big difference for readability

The PKZIP software lets you choose which ASCII values are included for End-Of-Line (EOL) and End-Of-File (EOF). They can be set to Carriage-Return (CR), Line-Feed (LF), Ctrl-Z (CZ) or nothing. The Unix System Administrators should be telling you what value(s) to specify for their system.

Not sure this topic is appropriate for an IBM mainframe forum.

And, I just noticed, haven't we already dealt with these same topics in your other posts?

I found out a way of removing ^M characters while ftp'ing a zip file from mainframe to unix server. There are options that we can use while zipping a file in mainframe. I used them and it is working fine now.

Thanks to all of you for your help.

Thanks

Hello,

Good to hear it is working - thanks for letting us know

I found out a way of removing ^M characters while ftp'ing a zip file from mainframe to unix server.

I suspect this is inaccurate as i'm sure you did not accomplish this while ftp'ing a compressed file. . . (which you als mention).

If you want, i'll remove that part of your post as well as this reply. . .