Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:24:51 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: zips and tars | ASCII or Binary? Message-ID: <01111720245100.00905@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c16fb2$b3607730$3000b1d8@sickness>
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On Saturday 17 November 2001 16:56, David Loszewski wrote:
> Are zips and tar.gz and tar files supposed to be transferred using
> Binary transfer or ASCII? How do I make one or the other a default for
> wget and ncftp?
>
> Dave
if transferring to a Unix (including Linux), use binary for everything.
zips are always binary.
tars should effectively always binary, though they aren't realy valid from
another O/S; if you got something perverse like a .tar file from a Windows
machine there's no proper way to transfer it . . .
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