For those who live exclusively in a Linux environment, the distinction between text mode and binary mode transfers is often irrelevant. When maintaining my web site I transfer everything in binary mode, because I do not use the DOS/Windows newline conventions in any of my text files, so I do not want the ^m changed to ^A^M or vice versa. Viva La Binary! On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Kirk Wood wrote: > IE does not behave as it should. A couple notes, while the extension is > used, it is not the only means. Thus an exe file is retrieved in bianary > mode and a txt file in text. But for unrecognized files (such as many disk > images) it checks the file's header info. If that appears to be text, then > text mode is used. Otherwise it is done in bianary mode. > > The save as dialog has no bearing on the method of downloading. It's only > effect is to attempt to let you choose the name and check for other files > with the same extension. If you choose to rename the file, often the > extension will remain intact. > > The moral of the story is that Macroslop has decided users don't know what > they want. Therefore they will decide. They will leave a few things in to > make those who foolishly believe they know what they are doing think the > OS is under control. Meanwhile Macroslop will still decide how things > should be done. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (28% of Full)
