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From: arthur@pnet02.gryphon.com (Arthur L. Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Using terminator
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Date: 24 Dec 89 18:00:16 GMT
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jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
>...
>You should use Ascii mode for the files like .BAS and .TXT, binary mode
>for .ARC.  The readme file attempts to give some hints about what files
>are what, and how to go about retreiving them.

UUE files are also binary, as they contain ascii 127 (DEL) characters.

>The real caveat here is that you need to know whether you expect a text
>or binary file, and make sure your FTP is set up accordingly.

Definately.
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