Re: Exp/Imp from Unix to NT?

From: andrew_webby at hotmail <spam_at_no.thanks.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:22:52 +0100
Message-ID: <986981012.2142.0.nnrp-09.c30bdde2@news.demon.co.uk>

That's your exact problem Joel. It absolutely HAS to be FTP'd in binary mode. Even a simple file size after it was transferred in ASCII would have shown a fair amount of difference...

"Joel Ehrlich" <jehrlich_at_chorus.net> wrote in message news:9av945$pqu$1_at_news.chorus.net...
> I also have routinely imported 8.0.5-generated dump files using the 8.1.6
> import utility. The unrecognizable header problem only arises when the
> export was run off of a Unix box.
>
> Incidentally, the unreadable dump file came to us via CD. I checked with
> the DBA who ran the export, he has to FTP the export file from the Unix
> machine to an NT machine before burning the CD. He indicated that he ran
> that FTP transfer in ASCII mode, but will try again using a binary
transfer.
> I'll let you know how things work.
>
> --Joel Ehrlich
>
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