From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 17 20:39:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04363 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04352 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02309; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <350F5000.25547584@dal.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:39:28 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA-0316 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Vanderhoek CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6039 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > > > Is it possible to fix something up so that fdimage won't try to write > > the image if it wasn't transferred in binary mode? This would eliminate > > about 80% of the questions about this in -questions. > > Offhand, I imagine it would be trivial. It would be a very welcome addition. :) > Why is it that so many people transfer it in ascii mode? A lot of people use weird ftp clients, netscape, or something else that transfers in ascii by default. It would be nice if the thing gave a shiny warning with a hint to the correct procedure. Thanks for the response, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message