Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:25:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, kleon@bellsouth.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <E0wgBva-0005pr-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:14:37 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970623093950.313P-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970623093950.313P-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.970623093950.313P-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> John Fieber writes: : 6) If the ^H is missing from a downloaded file, chances are it : got stripped rogue software. Claims were made that this : did indeed happen, but I don't believe the details of the : software used were mentioned--these are essential things to : provide with any bug report. I believe that the FTP standard states that ASCII mode is for text files that are a series of non-control characters followed by a line terminator. These files are then to be translated into a cononical form, sent over the wire, and then translated back. All this translation tends to be bad for anything that isn't in the range [32,126]. The file downloads fine with BINARY mode. Warner
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