Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:18:58 -0400, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
Another thing I'd point out is that some ftp programs will do this
conversion as the file is being sent between a local DOS machine and a
Unix machine on the internet.
"some ftp programs"?
Line end conversion is the whole reason, to my knowledge, for text
mode transfer, vs binary mode transfer.
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Perhaps I should have said "most ftp programs," or even "all ftp
programs," but I don't feel qualified to make such a generalization. In
any case, I don't currently use such automatic conversion when I'm doing
transfers because I like to be able to see exactly what's there, and I
don't have another way to directly examine the remote end.
The FTP I use is an add-on for Firefox (FireFTP), and although it has
text and "auto" modes, it's buried in the Tools->options menu, and the
main panel just does a transfer using whichever mode was selected.
Rather than risking corrupting the (mostly binary) files, I choose to
use binary mode all the time.
DaveA
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