On Wednesday, 04/24/2002 at 07:24 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > Make sure to ftp in binary by hand and not let Netscape do > it for you. We've found that depending on the configuration > of your PC the browse can negotiate with the web server to > corrupt your file while downloading ;-)
We have found that web browsers often request ASCII transmission of everything by default, on the erroneous assumption that it means the same thing as binary (Everything In The Universe uses the same encoding as Windows, right?). That means that LF gets translated to CRLF, messing up any offsets into the binary image. And, of course, the LF wasn't *really* an LF, it was compiled/compressed code or data! Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
