On Monday, 18 May 1998, at 19:13:46 (+0100),
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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)
I stand corrected. Good catch to you too. :)
Michael
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