FAQ

[Charles Hallenbeck]

For those who live exclusively in a Linux environment, the distinction
between text mode and binary mode transfers is often irrelevant. When
maintaining my web site I transfer everything in binary mode, because I do
not use the DOS/Windows newline conventions in any of my text files, so I
do not want the ^m changed to ^A^M or vice versa. Viva La Binary!



On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> IE does not behave as it should. A couple notes, while the extension is
> used, it is not the only means. Thus an exe file is retrieved in bianary
> mode and a txt file in text. But for unrecognized files (such as many disk
> images) it checks the file's header info. If that appears to be text, then
> text mode is used. Otherwise it is done in bianary mode.
> 
> The save as dialog has no bearing on the method of downloading. It's only
> effect is to attempt to let you choose the name and check for other files
> with the same extension. If you choose to rename the file, often the
> extension will remain intact.
> 
> The moral of the story is that Macroslop has decided users don't know what
> they want. Therefore they will decide. They will leave a few things in to
> make those who foolishly believe they know what they are doing think the
> OS is under control. Meanwhile Macroslop will still decide how things
> should be done.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
> 
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