Re: About Uncook- "a great lil' Utility too!!"

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:10:07 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     My guess is that Windows or Netscape must maintain some kind of temporary
>'junk file' copy of downloads. When a file is downloaded in Text mode, the
>unmodified copy goes into this temp file and into a buffer. Once the download
>is finished, the line enders are 'fixed' in the buffer and the file appears in
>your directory. The unmodified copy remains in the junk file (maybe for weeks)
>until its portion of the cache is eventually over-written.

As far as I know, but I'm not 100% sure, the end of line translation
is done by the server you are connected to before it sends the data to
you.  They had to write the servers to work correctly with dumb
terminals back then so they had to assume that the client could not do
any processing of data after the transfer.  I don't know if this has
changed recently but I see no reason why it would.

>     This would explain why Uncook sometimes does not work. Aside from a few
>downloads which are screwed up to begin with, it would not work if applied to
>an old download for which the original has been over-written.

I think it is more likely that the method used to tell the server what
your end lof line character is and the machine the server is running
on are far more likely to cause screw ups every now and then.  If the
server thinks you are a Mac instead of a PC it will translate the end
of line characters wrong.  If the server is running on a Mac instead
of a unix system, then uncook, if it assumes that CR/LF should be
changed to just LF as used by unix, will mess up because it should be
translating CR/LF to CR instead.

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