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From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd.luevelsmeyer@heitec.net>
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TJ Olney wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS wrote:
> > >> What is the difference between a text file ftp'd with
> > >> binary or ascii. (what are the actual differences ? )
> > If it really is all text, there wouldn't be any difference.
> >
> Almost true.
> 
> ASCII will convert CR-LF on a dos based system to a LF on Unix and vice
> versa.
> 
> If you send dos textfiles binary, they end up with ^m carriage return
> characters in front of every line feed.


The differences will be much more noticeable if you ftp from a system
with a non-ASCII character set, such as EBCDIC. With 'binary' you get
the unaltered file (unreadable on your machine), and with 'ascii' you
get the text.


Greetings,
	Bernd


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