RE: uploading source files with ftpapi

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Actually, I take that back. :)   FTPAPI does appear to retain the
source type when replacing an existing member.

Maybe you're downloading the source into a new member?   Obviously, FTP
doesn't transfer the member description (unless you use a save file) so
it can't retain that information...


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> It sounds like it's losing the source type.   You can change it
> with CHGPFM FILE(xxx) MBR(xxx) SRCTYPE(RPGLE), or from the F13 screen
> in SEU.
>
> It looks like when you replace an existing member with IBM's FTP client,
> it retains all of the old member's source type.   With FTPAPI, it starts
> a new member from scratch, and you lose the source type in much the same
> way as IBM's FTP client does when you use it to create a new member.
>
> Maybe that should be changed to save the source type...
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> >
> > I uploaded my source members as previously described.  The RPGLE members
> > have numbers and letters in positions 1-5 that did not show in SEU.  When I
> > FTP those back to the AS/400, the characters show in positions 1-5 and
> > change my lines to "Data area" type lines.  Is there any way around this?
> >
> > (If I view the original source in SEU and press F20, I see the same
> > characters.)
> >

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