hidden character ?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:53:56 -0500):

> For clarification Ken - Are you saying that if you FTP in binary that
> the ? appears and in ASCII it will not?
[...]

What I am saying is that BINARY mode does not convert text files from
Windows to Unix format, while ASCII mode does.  Sending a Windows text
file to Unix in BINARY mode (via ftp, or any other binary method) will
leave the CRLF line endings, rather than LF, causing Unix to see a CR
(aka Ctrl-M, 0x0D) at the end of every line.

The same is true for any text file sent from one O/S to another one
that uses different line endings, which is why ASCII mode exists in
the first place.

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