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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Lars is my hero! (was Re: apologies, but I still need a little help)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.083840.12512@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 08:38:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.200011.28590@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <186qb2INNai1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1899f1INN39a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >Should we put a warning in the FAQ about getting text files by FTP???
-
- No, I think that is basic FTP usage which anybody using FTP should know.
- Not that they do, text vs binary transfers causes a lot of trouble for
- most people (I should know, I once ftp'd GNU Emacs sources in text mode,
- and didn't realize something was wrong until I had downloaded them with
- a 2400 bps modem; I was lucky, it worked after I translated CRLFs to LFs
- and left lonely CRs alone). The FAQ probably should mention it (does
- it? too lazy to look up), although the real problem is that the FTP
- programs don't check whether the file is a text file or not before they
- muck it up. They should check it, and ask for confirmation for
- conversion first.
-
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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