From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 21:20:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26391 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org (ppp38-30.ght.iadfw.net [207.136.54.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26320 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dvo264@airmail.net) Received: from localhost (dvo264@localhost) by stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA00484; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:15:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dvo264@airmail.net) X-Authentication-Warning: stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org: dvo264 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:15:35 -0600 (CST) From: David X-Sender: dvo264@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org To: Greg Lehey cc: Adam Simpson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary In-Reply-To: <19980129113942.08200@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:39:42 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey > To: Adam Simpson > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: ascii conversion to binary > > On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 01:59:44PM -0600, Adam Simpson wrote: > > If a file is transferred in ascii mode, is there a way to convert it back > > to binary?? > > As others have said, no. > > There is *never* a reason to transfer files in ASCII. Always choose > binary. I'll let you reset all my HTML codes in the web pages after I transfer then in Binary. I'm getting tired of doing it after forgeting to type ascii at the prompt. Dave