From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 03:12:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3193D16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B1443D31 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:11:44 -0600 Message-ID: <41E1F28C.6030708@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:12:12 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> <20050109132854.GD44181@gothmog.gr> <200501091730.21540.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200501101251.14691.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200501101251.14691.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2005 03:11:45.0265 (UTC) FILETIME=[1D865E10:01C4F6C2] cc: Joshua Tinnin cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I quit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:12:15 -0000 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 is beyond me .... Kevin Kinsey