09-12-2001
gzip or FTP problem?
I hope someone can help me on this little problem.
Bit of background first. I've dumped an Oracle database to a plain text file that I wish to gzip then transfer via ftp to another machine. The dump and gzip runs fine and if I gunzip the file while still in unix the file looks fine. The problems occur once the file is FTP to a windows NT machine. The transfer goes fine and I end up with a zipped file on Windows that I can unzip using Winzip. The unzipped file opens ok as well. All looks ok until you scroll down to around the 1000 record. After then all the text is screwed up with all the spacing wrong.
It appears the the FTP transfer may be causing problems. The file is 500K before gzip and around 18K after. If the file is transfered without any compression then it opens without any problems at all.
Does anyone have any ideas why it is doing this or any other possible reasons?
The file needs to be compressed because it is too large to send across a slow link that we are using and ftp is the only real option we have for an automated transfer.
Thanks.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
gzforce
GZFORCE(1) General Commands Manual GZFORCE(1)
NAME
gzforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files
SYNOPSIS
gzforce [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
gzforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names trun-
cated after a file transfer. On systems with a 14 char limitation on file names, the original name is truncated to make room for the .gz
suffix. For example, 12345678901234 is renamed to 12345678901.gz. A file name such as foo.tgz is left intact.
SEE ALSO
gzip(1), gznew(1), gzmore(1), gzgrep(1), gzdiff(1), gzexe(1)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgzip |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | External |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package.
GZFORCE(1)