What is the diffrence between ASCII and BIN mode

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What is the diffrence between ASCII and BIN mode

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'ASC' :

ASCII format. The table is transferred as text. The conversion exits are carried out. The output format additionally depends on the parameters CODEPAGE, TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS, and TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS_EOL.

'BIN' :

Binary format. The data is transferred in binary format. There is no formatting and no codepage conversion. The data is interpreted row by row and not formatted in columns. Specify the length of the data in parameter BIN_FILESIZE. The table should consist of a column of type X, because especially in Unicode systems the conversion of structured data into binary data leads to errors.

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'ASC' :

ASCII format. The table is transferred as text. The conversion exits are

carried out. The output format additionally depends on the parameters

CODEPAGE, TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS, and TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS_EOL.

'IBM' :

ASCII format with IBM codepage conversion (DOS). This format correspond

to the 'ASC' format when using target codepage 1103. This codepage is

often used for data exchange by disc.

'DAT' :

Column-by-column transfer. With this format, the data is transferred as

with ASC text. However, no conversion exists are carried out and the

columns are separated by tab characters. This format creates files that

can be uploaded again with gui_upload or ws_upload.

'DBF' :

The data is downloaded in dBase format. Because in this format the file

types of the individual columns are included, import problems, for

example, into Microsoft Excel can be avoided, especially when

interpreting numeric values.

'WK1' :

The data is downloaded in Lotus 1-2-3 format.

'BIN' :

Binary format. The data is transferred in binary format. There is no

formatting and no codepage conversion. The data is interpreted row by

row and not formatted in columns. Specify the length of the data in

parameter BIN_FILESIZE. The table should consist of a column of type X,

because especially in Unicode systems the conversion of structured data

into binary data leads to errors.

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