Re: Help With Using System.Text.Encoding To Download File

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<A_StClaire_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am using the following code to download multiple file types from a
server. .txt files transfer fine. however Word .doc files come
through garbled and I don't know enough about encoding to understand
why.

You shouldn't be useing an encoding at all. Word files are binary files
- Encodings are only to be used for plain text files. You should just
use Streams to read/write binary files.

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