Re: FtpWebRequest in 2.0 Framework

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Arne wrote:

> Has anyone tried to download a mainframe file with FtpWebRequest. It
> doesn't seem to translate from EBCDIC to ASCII.
> The old inet control in VB6 has the same problem.
> Command line FTP has no problem to translate from EBCDIC to ASCII,
> but I prefer a .Net assembly.

Why can't you download it as binary and use System.Text.Encoding to
convert from EBCDIC? Windows supports tons of EBCDIC encodings -- see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/un
icode_81rn.asp.


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