Transferring files using MacKermit Transferring files between a Mac and the IBM mainframe using MacKermit Topics Introduction Uploading files to the mainframe Downloading files to your Mac Full Document Introduction You can create a file on a microcomputer and upload it to the IBM mainframe using MacKermit. Likewise, files stored on the mainframe can be downloaded to your Mac. Before you begin uploading or downloading, you must know if you will be transferring a binary or text file. Binary files such as graphics, compiled programs, or files created in a word processing program contain program codes. A WordPerfect file, for ex ample, contains codes for margin settings, bold, and underline.
Text files contain only characters.
They do not contain program codes. As feature that allows you to take out the formatting codes and save the characters only. If you have written a program using WordPe rfect, or want to use an Excel spreadsheet file as an input file for SAS, you must first save the file as text to use it on the mainframe. MacKermit does not properly transfer binary files. If you wish to transfer a binary file, you must first change the file to text by encoding or hexing it.