ftpput script: perl ?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

From: "Peter L. Peres" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org>

>  And binary in the sense of the ftp rfc's isn't what you'd think
> at all. It dates back to 36 bit pdp and vax abominations and such. In
> fact, unless you are talking to a mainframe from the previous century that
> cannot help itself you probably do not want to set binary at all I think.

Does this tells us something about windows? When ftp client is run from
there (that one which is by default installed by Microsoft) it will start in
"ascii" mode, which means that the eighth bit will be cleared to 0 in every
byte transfered.

zb.


--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml