From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 22:56:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA26062 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 22:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA26057 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 22:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00308; Tue, 7 May 1996 22:59:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Eric Harley cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: binary or ascii? In-Reply-To: <199605080136.SAA28996@absinthe.lightside.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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