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From: Eric Harley <eharley@absinthe.lightside.net>
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Subject: binary or ascii?
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Okay, this is my problem. I mirrored the ftp.freebsd.org archive and downloaded all the files as ascii. After doing this, I wrote them all to a cd via cdrom burner. What I am wondering is will the *.sh files and *.aa, *.ab files work if I transfered them as ascii rather than binary?

Eric