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From: MAP@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Michael A.  Patton")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: ftp-find-file
Message-ID: <414997.880719.MAP@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 88 21:01:09 GMT
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(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> says:
    Good point. As a matter of fact, I would argue for *always* using
    binary mode.

This is a VERY BAD idea.  The machine I usually ftp-find-file from
(and many others) does not store text in the same way UNIX does.
Fixing such differences is exactly what the FTP text (or netascii if
you insist) mode is for, don't defeat the purpose of a well thought
out protocol!  I'm not sure why you want to read non-textual
information into an Emacs buffer, but don't force the rest of us to!
Text mode transfers is certainly the right default for Emacs to use, I
doubt if 1% of the usage of Emacs is for non-textual data.