Re: Extra Letters on Page

Yes, this is universal.  When you use FTP to transfer a file as ASCII text,
the client (or the server?) does a CR/LF conversion based on the
sending/receiving system type.  If you send a binary file as ASCII, any data
perceived as being a windows CR/LF (0A0D if I remember right) is converted
to whatever the receiving version's End of Line character is - which will
mess things up pretty nicely as you noted.

Justin H.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael McKee" <mikemckee(at)cablespeed.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Fwd: Extra Letters on Page


>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > To answer some of your observations, I'm careful to always transfer html
> > files in ASCII, and pictures in binary.
> >
>
> Hi,
> I had the same problem for quite a while. What solved it for me was to
> send my images file and all its contents as binary. ASCII works for me
> with for cgi scripts, css files and such but seems to massacre jpgs and
> gifs. I don't know if this is universal or simply a function of my ftp
> client. Try binary for the images and see if that works.
>
> best, michael
>
>
> > I'm pretty sure these changes happen during FTP transmission, as my
> > original
> > page on my hard drive had neither mistake. And it happens randomly,
> > both to
> > text and pictures.
> >
> > An example of a picture that screwed up can be seen at:
> >
> > http://www.ragco.com/catalog/boston/bosmatl.htm
> >
> I,ve had the same type of results with re-sending under ascii. Sometimes
> it works, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> > Dave Burlingame
> > http://www.drbexe.com/
> >
>

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