On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Mark David wrote:
If you don't tack on ;type=a onto the end when transfering a text
file from unix to Windows, the file's line endings will not be
converted from unix (LF) to Windows (CRLF) conventions.
That is true.
If you look at the file in applications that just
You said: The type selection is rarely needed ...
This is untrue. I just tried this out using wget on Windows.
If you don't tack on ;type=a onto the end when transfering a text
file from unix to Windows, the file's line endings will not be
converted from unix (LF) to Windows (CRLF) conventions.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Mark David wrote:
When I look at the long help for wget, there's no mention of how to arrange
for ascii vs. binary download. It should be under FTP options. I've used
FTP for almost 20 years, and the ASCII or BINARY commands are the two most
common commands outside of
