Subject: Re: ftp client corrupts binary files with ^m ??
From: [email-masked] (Kevin F. Quinn)

6 Aug 1998 08:14:48 -0700
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Guido Roeskens [[email-masked]] wrote:

> You have to change the transfer type to binary mode: Simply type
> "bin" as an abbreviation for "binary". You can check the transfer
> type set with "type" or with "status".

The ftp.exe I have (from Sergey's "remote" package, I think) assumes
binary mounts, and fails on transfer of binary files to text!=binary
mounts in this way, even if type "binary" has been specified.

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Kevin F. Quinn
Web: http://www.banana.demon.co.uk/
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