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To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>,
        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>,
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:14:37 CDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:25:18 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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