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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William Chops Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Question for FTP Software...
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Date: 6 Mar 91 20:49:38 GMT
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    I have a question for FTP, Inc. that has yet to be answered by them...

    When will they support auto-line termination conversion?

    The reason I ask is that there are other companies (not PC based)
    that support conversion from UNIX (LF terminated) to Mac (CR terminated)
    automaticly.

huh?  TCP's FTP protocol explicitly supports "ascii" mode, where the
sending system is supposed to convert the file to nvt-ascii format (can
involve code conversion, but most often involves end-of-line conversion),
and the receiving FTP converts back to the "local" representation of a
"text" file.  As far as i know, FTP's software has always supported this
(perhaps being aided by the PC disk text format being almost exactly
nvt-ascii...)

BillW
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