[Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>> 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.

Ahh, shadup.

>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.

That seems to describe it quite well.

> (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).

Yeah, but their flashes of musical brilliance were blinding at times.  Too bad 
about Pete, but when one plays with spl's at 150db, one will pay the price.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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