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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:39:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From:      TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu>
To:        "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca>
Cc:        "'ANTHONY ZOULOUFOS'" <ant_zoul@yahoo.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.21.0010101336420.-274019@Starship083.cbe.wwu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F2DCDE350C71D411A68900902715763B9F637C@msxa4.itsd.statcan.ca>

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS wrote:
> >> What is the difference between a text file ftp'd with
> >> binary or ascii. (what are the actual differences ? )
> If it really is all text, there wouldn't be any difference.
> 
Almost true.

ASCII will convert CR-LF on a dos based system to a LF on Unix and vice
versa.

If you send dos textfiles binary, they end up with ^m carriage return
characters in front of every line feed.

TJ Olney



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