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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary
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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 -