Problem with file used by external table

Question

Hi all,
following situation:
I am creating my file on unix/solaris and ftp it to oracle server which is running on windows.
I am getting following error when I try to do select on the external table I get:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEFETCH callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04020: found record longer than buffer size supported, 524288, in D:\corona\flat_files\input\CORE.PROGRESS.TXT
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 52
But it is working when I do following:
File->Conversions->UNIX/MAC to DOS-> Save it and ftp to windows server.
I have already tried to call unix2dos in my shell script, but I keep getting the same error.
Here is the CREATE TABLE:
CREATE TABLE EXT_TRACKING_DATA_PROGRESS
TRACKING_ID VARCHAR2(19 BYTE),
COMPANY_ID VARCHAR2(19 BYTE),
SUPPLIER_ID VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
TRACKING_ID_TYPE VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
START_DATE VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
END_DATE VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
BLANK VARCHAR2(100 BYTE)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY DIR_INPUT
ACCESS PARAMETERS
( fields terminated BY '@|@' )
LOCATION (DIR_INPUT:'CORE.PROGRESS.TXT')
REJECT LIMIT 0
NOPARALLEL
NOMONITORING;

Answer 1

Are you FTP-ing the file to the Windows machine in ASCII mode? Or in binary mode? Binary mode won't convert the line breaks from Unix to Windows, which would appear to be the problem.
Justin