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Sean Estabrooks seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Sun May 23 03:50:12 UTC 2004


On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:28:32 -0500
Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:

> If using ASCII mode it does a lot more than convert newlines.  ASCII 
> mode converts all bytes to fit within the ASCII range of characters and 
> will not transmit any that are outside that range without conversion.. 
>  Yes, it does corrupt binary files irretrievably.

You'll notice that my response was not meant as a treatise on ASCII
transfers but rather as an explanation as to why he was seeing his
file size grow.

Regards,
Sean





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