RE: [stupid] vi question

Well that would explain it, I suppose. Unfortunately, these files were ftp'd by our ERP vendor so I really can't reverse the ftp situation.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will give them a try. Saira

-----Original Message-----
Stephen Lee
Sent: August 6, 2003 2:09 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Like mebbe you ftp'ed the file from the windows box in bin mode. FTP again,
but in ascii mode this time.

ftp box
(user / password)
ftp> ascii
200 Type set to a
ftp> get the_file

> -----Original Message-----
>
> There's the
> :set list
> and
> :set nolist
> commands.
>
> But in your case, I think you got ahold of a MSDOS/Windows text file.
>

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