Robo-FTP User's Guide > Script Programming > Script Commands > All Script Commands > READXTBL - Read custom ASCII

Syntax:	READXTBL	[ file name ]
Arguments:	[ file name ]	Optional variable or string defining a file or path name; if no path is defined Robo-FTP’s working folder is used.

This script command reads the specified file and replaces Robo-FTP’s default ASCII to EBCDIC and EBCDIC to ASCII translation tables with a custom table.

These tables are used when IBM Host Features mode and EBCDIC file transfer mode have been selected. In most cases the default tables will provide an acceptable translation, but in some cases one or more characters may not translate correctly.

A file named ‘xlat.tbl’ is provided with Robo-FTP which contains the default translations used by Robo-FTP. This file may be used with the NewXlat translation table patch utility provided with Robo-FTP to create custom translation table(s).

Related command(s): SENDFILE, RCVFILE, FTPTOJES