FTP files.

[govindgoyal]

Hi Guys,

I am new to Linux.
The problem which I am facing is that I am running ethereal network analyzer in suse linux and after saving capture file in specified location,I am using FTP utility to transfer that captured file from suse linux to windows XP.The file is getting transferred successfully but when I am opening that file in Windows XP then it is not getting open.

I am not finding any solutions to this problem.
Can anybody suggest the solutions??

Thanks & Regards,
Govind

[kakariko81280]

Perhaps you are transferring the file in ascii mode. Check your ftp client for a binary transfer option.

The trick here is that different systems can use different control characters to indicate the end of lines in a text file. This is why some text files turn up on *nix systems full of ^M symbols at the end of lines, they are the redundant control chars.

Ftp tries to be helpful and when it is transferring text files it re-encodes them for the target system. Naturally this trashes binary files which contain the affected control chars.

Let us know how you get on,

Chris...