Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dvo264@airmail.net, ejs@bfd.com Cc: adam2@apollo.netsonic.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary Message-ID: <199801291846.NAA26882@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Eric wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, David wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > There is *never* a reason to transfer files in ASCII. Always choose > > > binary. > > > > I'll let you reset all my HTML codes in the web pages after I transfer > > then in Binary. I'm getting tired of doing it after forgeting to type > > ascii at the prompt. > > Odd, what platforms are you transfering between? I transfer HTML between > Win95 and FreeBSD all the time in binary mode, and never see a problem. > Well - this is really in response to Greg - but there can be many reasons to specify ASCII transfers - particularly transferring text which doesn't originate as ASCII (e.g. EBCDIC text coming from a mainframe....) - Dave Rivers -
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