In article <Pine.GSO.3.93.960711111002.12118A-100000@malthus.csda.albany.edu>, Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu> wrote: >I'm trying to transfer portable files from SPSS-Unix to SPSS-X on VM/CMS. >I'm EXPORTing the file in Unix, FTPing it to IBM mainframe in ASCII type, >then IMPORTing on the IBM (VM/CMS). Well, it doesn't work. Has anyone >figured out a way to get around this. The only option I've found is to >transfer the file to PC, run SPSS-PC's portfix program and then transfer >it to VM/CMS. Unfortunately, I'll need to do this with about 20 files, >all between 15 and 20 megs which will take days. Any ideas? Thanks! >BTW, I'm using SPSS-Unix rel. 5.0 and SPSS for VM/CMS rel. 4.1

I've always had best luck using binary mode transfer in FTP for moving SPSS portable files around. Sometimes the leading lines of the file get corrupted. In these cases I've sometimes been able to see which lines are correct by producing and listing out a portable file on the receiving system, then have patched up the bad file by removing the corrupted lines and replacing them with the good stuff made on that system (this method was shown to me by Bruce Peterson).

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