Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:39:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu> To: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca> Cc: "'ANTHONY ZOULOUFOS'" <ant_zoul@yahoo.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: questions Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0010101336420.-274019@Starship083.cbe.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <F2DCDE350C71D411A68900902715763B9F637C@msxa4.itsd.statcan.ca>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS wrote: > >> What is the difference between a text file ftp'd with > >> binary or ascii. (what are the actual differences ? ) > If it really is all text, there wouldn't be any difference. > Almost true. ASCII will convert CR-LF on a dos based system to a LF on Unix and vice versa. If you send dos textfiles binary, they end up with ^m carriage return characters in front of every line feed. TJ Olney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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