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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:04:13 +0100
From:      "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To:        "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ^M on end of lines
Message-ID:  <015c01c16552$bd70e260$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111031148300.93546-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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> 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.

Ciao
Siegbert


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