topic Re: file conversion help in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/file-conversion-help/m-p/10538781#M1855972 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Which kind of .dat is? Who or what has generated that file?</P><P></P><P>Max</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:01:14 GMT Former Member 2014-08-23T00:01:14Z file conversion help https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/file-conversion-help/m-p/10538780#M1855971 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Abapers,</P><P></P><P></P><P>I need to convert a ".dat" format file in the application server to ".txt" format.</P><P>I have searched in the whole sdn and also google. But counld not find any Fm which does this task.</P><P>I have seen FMs to convert from XLS to SAP, but not the kind i need.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone know how to do it. If it is possible in Unix then i can call those commands from abap.</P><P>Did anyone do such one earlier. This is actually in the BW environment, so all the FMs from ECC are not available.</P><P></P><P>Any suggestions ??</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:39:48 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/file-conversion-help/m-p/10538780#M1855971 Former Member 2014-08-22T22:39:48Z Re: file conversion help https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/file-conversion-help/m-p/10538781#M1855972 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Which kind of .dat is? Who or what has generated that file?</P><P></P><P>Max</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:01:14 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/file-conversion-help/m-p/10538781#M1855972 Former Member 2014-08-23T00:01:14Z