From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 17:25:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1682737B418 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:25:22 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "David Loszewski" , Subject: Re: zips and tars | ASCII or Binary? Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:24:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <000501c16fb2$b3607730$3000b1d8@sickness> In-Reply-To: <000501c16fb2$b3607730$3000b1d8@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01111720245100.00905@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 17 November 2001 16:56, David Loszewski wrote: > Are zips and tar.gz and tar files supposed to be transferred using > Binary transfer or ASCII? How do I make one or the other a default for > wget and ncftp? > > Dave if transferring to a Unix (including Linux), use binary for everything. zips are always binary. tars should effectively always binary, though they aren't realy valid from another O/S; if you got something perverse like a .tar file from a Windows machine there's no proper way to transfer it . . . > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message