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From: timk@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: FTP text files with NCSA Telnet?
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Date: 22 Apr 89 18:07:00 GMT
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/* Written  1:47 pm  Apr 20, 1989 by t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu in zaphod:comp.sys.mac */
/* ---------- "FTP text files with NCSA Telnet?" ---------- */
What is the trick to downloading text files from a Unix machine using NCSA
Telnet/ftp and getting carriage returns?

-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) defines the end of line translation
for ASCII files.

Therefore, the default mode on most machines and all Unix machines that
I know of will handle the conversion automatically.  This is ASCII mode.
Binary mode will preserve the linefeeds and confuse Macintosh text file
editors.

Tim Krauskopf
NCSA