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Date:      Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:12:12 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I quit
Message-ID:  <41E1F28C.6030708@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <200501101251.14691.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> <20050109132854.GD44181@gothmog.gr> <200501091730.21540.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200501101251.14691.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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Malcolm Kay wrote:

>On a MS system you'll probably need to set the file mode to prevent
>\n being translated to \r\n. It can be quite frustarating to realise
>this only after hours of download :-
>
>ftp> binary
>  
>
>Malcolm
>  
>

Just "bin" works.  But you'll _absolutely_ want to do
that. 

<*slight* exaggeration>Why M$ assumes the only thing you'll ever want
to d/l via ftp is ASCII text </*slight* exaggeration> is beyond me ....

Kevin Kinsey



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