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From: caf@omen.com (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Subject: Re: Kermit download from CompuServe.. best setup??
Organization: Omen Technology INC
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 05:27:55 GMT
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In article <3vea9l$b7n@Venus.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
> ...
>> WHEREAS nobody, not even the most inexperienced user, transfers any type
>> of file except ZIP and GIF and JPEG any more, and...
>
>Unfortunately, GIF and JPEG files are more portable than text these days.
That's because so many "text" files are not quite ANSI files
with formats of their own. Perhaps we should not call a file a text file
unless it only contains printable characters, with a maximum 80 or 132 line
width, and no control characters other than CR/LF (or NL) and TAB.
The more one objects to this definition the more one proves the point.
Perhaps the future lines in programs that accept either text format,
including most C compilers, less, and the Stevie editor for DOS.
(Oh yes, and the Professional-YAM script interpreter!)
Do people have problems with FTP's file corruption mode default?
In many situations it's not the default. When it was, as when
FTP-ing new Chicago builds from Microsoft's NT server, it caused
its share of grief.
--
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX caf@omen.COM 503-621-3406 FAX:-3735
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, GSZ and DSZ
TeleGodzilla BBS: 503-621-3746 FTP: ftp.cs.pdx.edu pub/zmodem