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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 12:04, Siegbert Baude wrote:
> > Actually, what ASCII mode is supposed to do, is, when transferring
>
> text
>
> > files, convert to the platform specific text format. (Which really
>
> means
>
> > the receiver strips or adds the ^M). This instruction is actually in
>
> our
>
> > training manual for new employees developing code on Windows machines
>
> who
>
> > need to transfer via FTP. USE ASCII MODE FOR ASCII FILES. :-)
>
> As Real Programmers(tm) know all ASCII codes OR EBCDIC, you see that ftp
> text mode must do more than only strip or attach ^m. Translation to
> non-ASCII encodings like EBCDIC are also in the game.

Yes, but I believe that text mode works by translating native to "canonical" 
on one end and "canonical" to native on the other end.  Canonical is 
definately ASCII; not sure if it's \n or \r\n.

OTOH, another person says I'm wrong about that and I haven't verified so 
perhaps he's right; sure seems screwy for it to work any other way, though.



>
> Ciao
> Siegbert

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