Re: .SHK files

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:
>"Mr.I'mAnOutOfControlLisaSimpsonFannnn" writes ...
>> I don't know the difference between downloading as Text and downloading as
>> Binary, and I don't think there should be a difference.

>     Me neither; but, there is.

If all systems used the same end of line convention, there would not need to
be two modes. As it is, there are three commonly used standards:

Unix:	LF
MacOS:	CR
MS-DOS:	CR LF

If you transfer a text file from a Mac server to a Unix client in binary mode
you end up with a one line file with much overprinting. All three standards
make some sense but are incompatible with each other.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia