Re: Upload to Ground

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com> wrote:

> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> writes:
> > PDF's are _binary_ files, and can never be downloaded as text.
> 
> PDFs can either be binary or text.  In fact, the earliest PDF spec
> required them to be text.  But these days they are almost always
> binary, so it's certainly safest to assume that.

I think it's always a good idea to have your ftp program default to
binary since it does no harm to text files. I know that a lot of
browsers will try to download almost everything as text, which is
generally not good for things like disk images and Shrinkit archives,
but you can usually specify how files are dealt with in the preferences.
For things like Shrinkit archives, I think you want the MIME type set to
"application/octet-stream", so the browser will know you want it saved
to disk as binary (subject to correction by anyone who knows better).

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