Exactly my point. Those are the booby traps I referred to. They are all anachronistic gestures to the MS world. The strategy for Linux users who wonder when to use "ascii" (AKA "text") modes, is a resounding NEVER! On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Adam Myrow wrote: > Really? FTP still has ASCII mode and binary mode. Furthermore, depending on > which version of Unix or Linux you use, the default will be different. For > example, Solaris 8 and earlier defaulted to ASCII mode when you connected to > another machine with FTP. Solaris 9 and later default to binary mode. > Thankfully, ncftp seems to have always defaulted to binary mode. Then, when > you have to read a file produced in Windows or DOS, you might have to convert > the end-of-line characters. All of this would be a non-issue if everybody > would agree on the same end-of-line convention, but there seems to be this > notion that making things incompatible will ensure that nobody will switch > from one OS to another. > -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full) Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074
