On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Phalnikar, Amol wrote:

> > I am encountering a problem in ftp. I want to get multiple files
> > from ftp server.
> > So I am first doing FTPLISTONLY and getting list of file and writing
> > it in a file and again reading the file and getting individual files
> > through server in a loop.
> >
> > This works fine in windows. But in case of unix ( solaris ), when I
> > am writing the output of FTPLISTONLY to file, it contains a control
> > character ^M. So it is not possible to view the file. Has anyone came
> > across such problem ??
> >
> > If anyone has solution to this, can you please post it on mailing
> > list ?

Sure, strip off all ^M character from the directory lists.

^M is the CR (ascii letter 13) that is used in combination with LF (ascii 10)
to make newlines. DOS/Windows use that kind of newlines natively, while unix
systems only use LF and treat CR as weird characters

Or what am I missing?

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