Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:39:28 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6039 Message-ID: <350F5000.25547584@dal.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980317232235.28868A-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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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
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