On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 22:39:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 22:21:35 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> If YOU surf a site and want to pick up a .BAT, would you expect it to >> run when you got it ? > The difference is.... we're not "surfing". <g> > We're using an FTP client. >> I guess we will have to select the proper modes for each file, or trust >> the FTP client to make the correct decisions. >> Of course it won't know what an .AH is or a .htp... >> Experiment time. <G> > We have 4 possible combinations. > PUT/GET > BPUT/GET > PUT/BGET > BPUT/BGET Yes, but: FTP is built into Arachne. It is much more convenient than using an external client if you are doing single file transfers. It decides for itself what mode to use and creates an ftp.log. Try it. ;-) >From my arachne.cfg: FTPserver arachne.cz FTPusername arachne-dist FTPpassword team and ShiftF8 ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree that for multiple transfers, and external is all that we can use right now, but it seems to me that we should choose the mode for the external that makes single file downloads for instant test easy. And Joe, yes I understand now that the file ONSITE only has LFs in it, but when downloaded by Arachne, letting her decide what mode to use, it arrives as intended with CRLFs. I don't much like the idea of treating text differently from binary, but the Tower of Babel seems to be built into the system. BRB. I just took a look around at a few ftp sites. Surprisingly, the Linux ones (pygmy) seem to store their text files in binary form, and files selected arrive here with an extra CR. SIMTEL stores its text files in a form that arrive here PROPERLY. ftp://ftp.eunet.bg:21/pub/simtelnet/msdos/00_info/ - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
