Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvca!charles
From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ftp-find-file
Message-ID: <640004@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 88 23:05:19 GMT
References: <414997.880719.MAP@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
Lines: 12

>? 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.

>OK, I'll back off on that. And I agree that rarely will one ftp-find
>binary files. But for people who do, how about this: C-u M-x ftp-find-file
>will turn on binary mode, without C-u do regular text mode. Same for
>ftp-write-file. Everybody satisfied?
>	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>

It would be more clear, ie self documenting as ftp-find-file-ascii and
ftp-find-file-binary.  Both of these can call ftp-find-file but with a
different option for binary-mode.
	Charles Brown		hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com