Outbound interface program for downl;oading text file

Hi,
I m working with outbound interface program which downloads text file into application and presentation server upon the selection.
My probelm is
The data format in the text file
Whenever interface sends 1 record to the text file and next record should start continuation to the first record with
seperator like some synbol.
Please tel me posr the sent for this

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report z11dpk_assign1
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        line-count 65(0).              "page length.
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tables: trdir,     " System Table TRDIR
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types: begin of struct_sys,
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       clas(4) type c,       " Program class
       subc(1) type c,       " Program type
       cnam(12) type c,       " Author
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data     : c_name(50)        type c,               " Program Name
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           c_filename1       type string,          " File name
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           c_textline(150)   type c,               " downloading status
           c_count           type c,               " no of pgm downlded
           c_count_text(100) type c.               " Text pgm downlded
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data: wa_sys    type struct_sys,          " Work area for sys data
      wa_report type struct_report.       " Work area for report data
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selection-screen : begin of block blk1 with frame title text-001.
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>
Sreenivasulu Reddy jonnavarapu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an issue in handling empty file in the Text (FCC) to Text (FCC) file scenario. Interface picks text file and delivers on target system as text file. I have used FCC in both sender and receiver CCs.
> Interface is working fine if the source file is not empty. If the source text file is empty (zero Bytes), interface has to delivery an empty text file on target system. I have setup empty file handling options correctly on both CCs.
>
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>
> Could you please suggest me what I need to do to create an empty text file on target system from empty source text file?
>
> Thanks in Advance....
>
> Regards
> Sreeni
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Thank you for your reply.

Thank you for your help and suggestions. I tried a couple of experiments with a video file that has chapter markers. This was created in FCE using the "Export - QuickTime Movie" command.
One experiment was to bring the file into a new, blank sequence in FCE. Then export it right back out as a QuickTime movie. The resulting movie appears to be identical to the original, except that there are no chapter markers any more.
The second experiment was to make a duplicate of the original sequence which I used to make the movie in the first place. In this duplicate, I deleted everything except the chapter markers. I then brought in the video file into that sequence and exported it. The resulting file appears to be identical, and this one does have the chapter markers.
The only problem with doing it that way is that I lose all my edits. What if I wanted to edit something or adjust one of my original edits? I can't go back to that stage, with all my original edits, if I don't have all the original source files.
In addition, it's not clear to me exactly how I would use FCE as the "splitting program." How do you split a sequence into smaller parts?
All I really want to do is take a "snapshot" of the entire project, including all the source files, capture scratch files, etc. I don't need to back up the render files because those can easily be re-rendered. The entire project is taking up about 72 Gb on my hard drive, and I want to offload the whole thing. Even if it takes me 20 DVD-R discs to do it, that's no problem. Someone must have come up with a program or solution to do this.
Thanks!

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