to summarize the conversation: >>> I don't know what is scarer letting ASCII loose in the environment or >>> letting programmers know about it. >> Not to alarm you further, but I believe it's already endemic. >Not in any company I have ever worked.
Why is getting an ASCII piece of information so scary? And why would handling it using proper programming, any scary? So how would the companies you work for prevent the need? What would you do if you cannot allow FTP to do the conversion when there is a mix of alphanumeric characters and binary information? ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
