From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 13:39:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.cbe.wwu.edu (voyager.cbe.wwu.edu [140.160.80.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C8837B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from starship083.cbe.wwu.edu (starship083.cbe.wwu.edu [140.160.80.183]) by voyager.cbe.wwu.edu (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13918; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from market@cc.wwu.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:39:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: TJ Olney To: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" Cc: "'ANTHONY ZOULOUFOS'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: market@voyager.cbe.wwu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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