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When you select among the options listed above, you have to consider the purpose of your
file transfer:
Are you going to transfer a file to a host, where the file will be processed by programs on
that host? In that case, you must select options that will result in a file that can be used by
the target host. If the data is text, the originating host uses EBCDIC, and the target host
uses ASCII, you must use an ASCII data type and a stream transfer mode.
Are you going to transfer a file to another host for intermediate storage only and later
retrie
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