Linux and data storage?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Exactly my point. Those are the booby traps I referred to. They are all
anachronistic gestures to the MS world. The strategy for Linux users who
wonder when to use "ascii" (AKA "text") modes, is a resounding NEVER!
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Adam Myrow wrote:

> Really?  FTP still has ASCII mode and binary mode.  Furthermore, depending on 
> which version of Unix or Linux you use, the default will be different. For 
> example, Solaris 8 and earlier defaulted to ASCII mode when you connected to 
> another machine with FTP.  Solaris 9 and later default to binary mode. 
> Thankfully, ncftp seems to have always defaulted to binary mode.  Then, when 
> you have to read a file produced in Windows or DOS, you might have to convert 
> the end-of-line characters.  All of this would be a non-issue if everybody 
> would agree on the same end-of-line convention, but there seems to be this 
> notion that making things incompatible will ensure that nobody will switch 
> from one OS to another.
>
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