--On Mon, May 18, 1998 2:03 pm -0400 "Michael Jennings"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday, 18 May 1998, at 18:17:21 (+0100),
> Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Aha!
>>
>> With that clue, I can tell you what you did wrong.
>>
>> You downloaded the file in text-mode, not binary.
>>
>> If you were using a unix-style FTP client, you should have remembered to
>> type
>> 'binary' before typing 'get'.
>
> That's true if downloading between UNIX and non-UNIX. But even
> ASCII mode should work with no translations from UNIX to UNIX, one
> would think. Or am I giving OS designers too much credit? :)
Nope. You're just not thinking things through properly :)
The 'network' model of line-endings is CR and LF. So when you download a
binary file as text it is converted from just LFs to CR/LF by the server
(assuming a unix server) and then from CR/LF to whatever the local
convention is.
A little thought will show that this will almost certainly munge any file
unless both client and server are Messy-Dos, which happens to use the
network standard as its default (so the translation is a NOP)
Jules
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