Re: TECH: info on ftp
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 24, 2008, 19:07 |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:57, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> Binary (non-ASCII) files can be transmitted just fine with FTP. In older
> clients, you had to specifically invoke binary mode, because otherwise they
> would assume files transferred were text. (I'm not sure why the distinction
> was made, although I think FTP clients in text mode do automatically convert
> the newline characters to whatever's appropriate.)
*nod* I believe that was one main reason for that transfer mode.
And on older system with strong file typing (such as VMS, I believe),
it also set up the receiving file to be of type "lines-of-text" rather
than "stream-of-bytes".
> Newer ones I think default to binary.
That's my impression, too.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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