ASCII mode FTP (was RE: Fw: error)

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Quoting Bob Rasmussen (Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:25 -0800 (PST)):
> 
> > I haven't been paying full attention, as I was distracted by 103-inch
> > TVs at CES! So please pardon me if I stumble...
> 
> I was just reading about them in yesterday's paper.  Are they as
> shiny as they sound?

They're quite amazing. As is the transition: going from a booth with 
people gawking at a huge TV to a booth with 25 kinds of cell phone, each 
the size of a field mouse.

> ...
> As for Ctrl-Z, believe it or not, Windows itself still treats that
> as an EOF in text mode.  Try copying a PCL file to a printer using
> the "copy filename lpt1" format, and the file will be truncated at
> the first Ctrl-Z it encounters.  You need "copy /b filename lpt1"
> to use binary mode.  Create a text file with a Ctrl-Z in it, and
> then "type filename".  It stops at the ctrl-Z.  And so on.  On the
> other hand, none of the current Windows programs _creates_ a text
> file with Ctrl-Z at the end, AFAIK.

You've got a point. I suppose one could argue that COPY and TYPE are DOS 
commands, and maintain compatibility with the past.

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