On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:41 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > No, William is right - the ASCII transfer mode will handle any discrepancy > between Mac and Linux, but won't handle the fact of its being eventually > read on Windows, unless Windows is on one end of the FTP transfer. I > hadn't thought of that!
I guess it depends how he's getting fhe files off of the Linux FTP server: > > >> asc(13) asc(10), or cr/lf pair terminating each line. So, to make > > >> my long story short, when I download files from my Windows box, my > > >> VB programs can use them, but when I download them from my Linux > > >> server my programs crash. If that "download" is another FTP transfer, then it should also be performed in ASCII mode. If that doesn't work, then I suppose that we'll hear from him again soon. :-) ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
