From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: Lars is my hero! (was Re: apologies, but I still need a little help) Date: 5 Sep 1992 08:38:40 GMT
mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>Should we put a warning in the FAQ about getting text files by FTP???
No, I think that is basic FTP usage which anybody using FTP should know.
Not that they do, text vs binary transfers causes a lot of trouble for
most people (I should know, I once ftp'd GNU Emacs sources in text mode,
and didn't realize something was wrong until I had downloaded them with
a 2400 bps modem; I was lucky, it worked after I translated CRLFs to LFs
and left lonely CRs alone). The FAQ probably should mention it (does
it? too lazy to look up), although the real problem is that the FTP
programs don't check whether the file is a text file or not before they
muck it up. They should check it, and ask for confirmation for
conversion first.