Re: ASCII or BINARY ??

it really depends on what you are doing.  anything I am going to
execute(like a perl script) I upload in ASCII and everything else I upload
in Binary.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Smith" <jay(at)JaySmith.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: FTP: ASCII or BINARY ??


> Hi,
>
> I use an FTP product that is always asking me if I want to upload (to
> my ISP for use on our web site) my files in ASCII (plain text) or
> BINARY format.
>
> Right or wrong, I have always used BINARY because once upon a time
> someone told me that is what I wanted to do.  Everything has been
> working just fine.
>
> Recently, however, I read a magazine snippet in which the author
> indicated that something (I don't remember what) must be uploaded in
> ASCII format.
>
> When should one use which one???
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jay Smith
>
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