Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:12:28 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>, "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines Message-ID: <01110422122801.03811@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <015c01c16552$bd70e260$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111031148300.93546-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <015c01c16552$bd70e260$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 12:04, Siegbert Baude wrote:
> > Actually, what ASCII mode is supposed to do, is, when transferring
>
> text
>
> > files, convert to the platform specific text format. (Which really
>
> means
>
> > the receiver strips or adds the ^M). This instruction is actually in
>
> our
>
> > training manual for new employees developing code on Windows machines
>
> who
>
> > need to transfer via FTP. USE ASCII MODE FOR ASCII FILES. :-)
>
> As Real Programmers(tm) know all ASCII codes OR EBCDIC, you see that ftp
> text mode must do more than only strip or attach ^m. Translation to
> non-ASCII encodings like EBCDIC are also in the game.
Yes, but I believe that text mode works by translating native to "canonical"
on one end and "canonical" to native on the other end. Canonical is
definately ASCII; not sure if it's \n or \r\n.
OTOH, another person says I'm wrong about that and I haven't verified so
perhaps he's right; sure seems screwy for it to work any other way, though.
>
> Ciao
> Siegbert
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