Consensus seems to be that binary is the only mode you would ever need. Question is that why don't the client developers simply drop ASCII as a transfer format?
Mike
John M. Mills ">jmills@tga.com> thusly spake on [000215 14:38]:
>
> Gary, Chris, et.al.-
>
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Gary Maltzen wrote:
> > As Michael has pointed out, the difference between binary and ASCII
> > concerns the different way systems interpret line endings.
>
> Though it arises from multiple, different native text formats, an error
> here bites me most frequently in transferring a binary file which is
> thereby trashed. Typically I am uploading web content and forget to set
> 'binary' before sending a PDF. @#$!!
>
> Other binary formats naturally need literal transfer, too.
>
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