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Re: [cobalt-users] ftp a .tar.gz as ascii or ftp?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ftp a .tar.gz as ascii or ftp?
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed Jul 11 21:49:06 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> I need to ftp a file.tar.qz file off a machine. Should I ftp it as a binary
> or ascii file???
>
> My *opinion* is that it should be a binary, owing to the tarball and
> compression stuff that's been done, but if anyone can render a definitive
> verdict on this I'd be grateful.
ascii mode basicly fixes the cr/crlf at the end of each line of text for a
text file, for *ANY OTHER* type of file, you want binary (which transfers
an exact copy regardless of the types of machines you are transferring
between.....
gsh