From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 12:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17488 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17446 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA170980886020428; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:47:09 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA05803; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:47:06 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29563; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:41:53 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00705; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:41:52 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:41:52 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Adam Simpson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Adam Simpson wrote: > If a file is transferred in ascii mode, is there a way to convert it back > to binary?? If you've ftp'd a file in ascii, when you *really* meant to do it in binary, there's no way to convert it. You have to get the file all over again. -- Jonathan Chen ----- char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}