UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone,

I am trying to copy a large file from our SCO server to Win2000, burn it and then copy to our new server. Here's my problem. The file I am transfering is about 90 meg. When I use ftp from the windows machine and use the get command, it transfers the file but when I look at the properties of the file on the 2000 machine it is only 450 K. I tried to use a tftp server and that seems to work but it times out after 33 meg. Does anyone know if I can get around the timeouts? Or is the ftp file smaller because is is ascii - if that is true, can I still put it back together on our new machine?

Thanks in advance

jeff

90 megs is not that much. The smallest size where I would expect you to have problems is 2 GB. Maybe you're just misreading the file info from one of the OS's?

Try this experiment to see if there is really a problem: copy the file Win2000, on Win2000 rename the file, then copy it back. Then on SCO,
do:
wc old new
diff old new | wc -l

That should tell you if there really is a problem or not, thus answering your last question.

Yes when I copy it back it is the same smaller size that is on was transferred to the 2000 machine. I just do a long listing (ls -l) to check the size. So the problem is somewhere in the transfer. . . probably my error...

Thanks

jeff

Now compare the files to see how they differ. Is the smaller one just the beginning of the real file? Or is it garbled?

Also can you copy other large files from other systems to the Windows system?

3 day weekend...

Anyway, both reports are garbled, I was just asked to move them and I'm not sure what they are... one is just shorter than the other. If I cat the file the original runs for much longer than the copy.
The results of the word counts were:

55578 3292512 90746831
259 1496 62520

I also set up tftp server on my 2000 machine and tried to send it that way from the UNIX box. That seemed to work until I got to about 33 meg worth of the file and then timed out. Any ideas???

Thanks again,

Jeff

In your first post you said that had an ascii file and got 450k transferred. But wc only sees 62520 bytes. One of your systems is broken. I would try to transfer files to and from a 3rd box to see which one it is.

62520 is under the 16 bit limit. Could your windows 2k ftp client be running in 16 bit mode?

THANKS!!!

I tried the transfer from another 2000 machine and it worked. The file sizes are slightly different and the word counts as well. Here's the verdict...

555778 3292512 90746831
555778 3290131 90685972

Does this sound right?

Any ideas what might be the problem with the first 2000 machine? I just used ftp from a command line interface.

Thanks again,

Jeff