Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Eric Harley <eharley@absinthe.lightside.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: binary or ascii? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507225819.269A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605080136.SAA28996@absinthe.lightside.net>
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Eric Harley wrote: > 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? Nope. ASCII is for flat text files; it will convert certain binary sequences, thus corrupting the archives. You MUST use 'binary' mode when transferring non-text files! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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