I quit

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Sun Jan 9 19:12:15 PST 2005


Malcolm Kay wrote:

>On a MS system you'll probably need to set the file mode to prevent
>\n being translated to \r\n. It can be quite frustarating to realise
>this only after hours of download :-
>
>ftp> binary
>  
>
>Malcolm
>  
>

Just "bin" works.  But you'll _absolutely_ want to do
that. 

<*slight* exaggeration>Why M$ assumes the only thing you'll ever want
to d/l via ftp is ASCII text </*slight* exaggeration> is beyond me ....

Kevin Kinsey


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