if you need to access UNIX file on DOS-compatible platform, you may need
ASCII mode to allow the end-of-line character (EOL) translation,
otherwise, your program may freak out because DOS uses two character
combination as EOL while UNIX just uses one character.
Jerry Yu
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Michael Phillips wrote:
#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?
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#Mike
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#John M. Mills ">jmills@tga.com> thusly spake on [000215 14:38]:
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#> Gary, Chris, et.al.-
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#> 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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