From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 14:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01646 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01597 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24539; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:38:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA03388; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:38:30 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980130083830.10630@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:38:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: dvo264@airmail.net, ejs@bfd.com, adam2@apollo.netsonic.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary References: <199801291846.NAA26882@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801291846.NAA26882@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 01:46:13PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 01:46:13PM -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > 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....) OK, that's a valid possibility. On the other hand, you can do that locally as well. ASCII conversion does too many other things that you wouldn't necessarily expect, and it must be the cause of one of the biggest newbie questions: "I downloaded the boot floppy, but (choose 1) - I can't boot my machine with it - The file's too big. How do I get it on to the floppy - The machine locks up" Greg