[Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 11:51:49 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
>
> On Friday 08 May 2009, Tim Fadden wrote:
> >I think you are referring to using command line ftp.  I have seen
> this.
> >What I discovered is that the dos ftp defaulted to ascii mode, and
> the
> >nix's defaulted to binary (or visa-versa its been a while!) and they
> >didn't automatically talk to each other of figure out what the file
> >really was.  So....  to make sure you didn't get corrupted files,
> all
> >that needed to be done is specify binary or ascii before you started
> the
> >up/download, and all was fine.  This may still be the case.
> >
> >Tim
> >
> gah, choke, wheeze.  You are making me shuffle around in 15-20 year
> old 
> memories and the dust is overwhelming, but they do seem to match, that
> I had 
> to issue the binary command before doing the download if I wanted a
> good dl.

For me, it's been an automatic thing for a couple of decades -- easier to clean up a text file if the wrong choice was made than a binary.  Most linux servers (and clients) default to binary.  But I still explicitly set it anyway, out of habit.

Quit complaining about your age.  You're still here.  While I'm a decade and some behind you, I've reached the point where if I wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, I must have died in my sleep.  (Forty-odd years ago, the Who had a song that had the line "hope I die before I get old" -- one member of the band [Keith Moon] did so, the rest are still healthy though Pete Townsend is now as deaf as Beethoven).
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net