ftp (was Re: hidden character ?)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:15:54 -0500):
[...]
> However, when I transfer filePro stuff between my laptop and my
> UNIX system, I have to be careful whether NcFTP is in ASCII or
> Binary Mode.  Though they'll work either ways, processing tables
> (saved with ABE=ASCII) are better transferred in Binary Mode
> (I'm not sure about tables saved with ABE=""; I haven't tried it,
> but they might be corrupted by translation of possible hex 0a's
> in the encrypted tables).

Encoded prc files must be sent in binary, as they are not text files.
As you said, 0x0D and 0x0A characters may be mangled by ASCII mode.
(Not to mention, that Windows clients may stop the transfer if 0x1A
is encountered.)

> filePro User Menus (though they also work either way) are also
> better transferred in Binary Mode (if not, they can't be used
> with my MENU EDIT II program, because an ASCII Mode transfer
> will add CRs to the Menu's three ssgments, making them longer
> than the 4719 bytes my MENU EDIT II program expects).

Also, if you have 10 menu items, the first byte in the file will
be 0x0A.  (And 13 items will cause 0x0D to be the first byte.)

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