Nothing translates line endings to CRLF while ftp'ing in binary.. windows does actually use CRLF to deliminate lines in text files, while almost everyone else uses only LF. I believe Macintosh uses only CR. Windows does have separate "binary" and "text" modes, but it's a superficial filter in their API. Files just contain bytes, there's nothing magic about the fact it contains text other than that there are competing standards for text file formatting. --Palrich.
> Maybe clear some misconception up here.. there is no "Unix format." This > unix format you speak of, in terms of text, is just that: *TEXT*, > nothing more, nothing less, just a plain ascii file. What may be your > problem, like others have said, is that you don't know the difference > between ascii and binary, and are transferring ascii files in a binary > mode, which is a big no-no. The client (and/or server?) will translate > all of you CRLF's at the end of your lines into actual characters, which > will stay with you until you either hand delete them, or like you should > be doing, transferring the ascii files in ascii mode, its why just about > every ftp client i can think of (even windows prompt 'ftp') allows you > to set the mode to ascii. > -K
