Re: My Asimov and Cabi archives, and a great lil' Utility too!!

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 8 Jul 1999 20:50:41 GMT, apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ISCA
AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>Jeff, if Apple binary files are having end-of-line conversions being done
>then you are NOT transferring in binary mode.  End-of-line conversions
>only happen in text transfers.  Try to fix your transfer program or
>browser or change to another application to do your file transfers.

For the most part I haven't had problems transferring Apple II files
myself.  It just seems to me that the corruption that sometimes occurs
happens because the browser or server don't send the file in binary
mode but in text mode instead which causes end of line characters to
be changed.  I don't think any web servers ever send data over a 7 bit
connection but I haven't read the RFC for http yet so I'm not sure.

I was wondering how the uncook program was fixing files if it didn't
know what end of line character translation was done during the
transfer.

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