Re: Binary vs ASCII for uploading

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Hi Bill,

Recently, I've been unable to upload a 7MB .exe file to a Windows
server; the connection would drop with an ABOR error about halfway
through. Someone suggested uploading as ASCII instead of binary. Tried
that last night and it seemed to work. I don't know much about
internals here but could someone shed some light on this?

this tip is bull***!
ASCII Mode can - and often will - connect each CR/LF to a single LF or
expand each LF to CR/LF, depending on which client and which server you
are using.
..EXE is in fact binary, so you need to use binary mode - otherwise your
file will be scambled.
If you are using MS products on both sides, ascii may work, because MS
does not convert DOS-EOLs into UNIX-EOLs or vice versa. but the idea of
using ascii for binary files is sick...

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Mai Kee Reiss
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