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

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:28:40 GMT, glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed)
wrote:

>Also....found a great utility called 'uncook'.  It basically takes any
>files that were mistakenly sent to you as 'text' files (improper MIME
>type settings under Apache, etc), and fixes them so they are Binary
>files.  This seems to be a big problem with files received via http
>off some servers.

How exactly does it do this?

If I transfer a binary Apple II file from a unix system to a Windows
machine, all line feeds ($0A) get converted to carriage return/line
feed ($0D0A).  However, if I transfer a binary Apple II file from a
Mac system to a Windows machine then all carriage returns ($0D) get
converted to carriage return/line feed ($0D0A).  How does the program
know whether to convert $0D0A sequences to $0A or $0D?

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