Re: Su-27 movie and demo stack to be released

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 23 Mar 1998 21:02:06 GMT, gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones) wrote:

>Couldn't unpack the binscii files. Sorry. Also, I've had some trouble with
>my uploads to ground being a little shorter than they should be, which is
>ungood.

If you are uploading ASCII text file, such as a BINscii file, and are
using ASCII transfer mode, which you should, then from many machines
the resulting file on the FTP site will be shorter.

ASCII transfer mode will convert end of line character combinations to
what the local machine uses.  Therefore sending an ASCII file from an
IBM, which uses carriage return/line feed as its end of line, will be
converted to just a line feed on a UNIX machine.  This means that the
file becomes 1 byte shorter for every line in the file.

So when uploading in ASCII mode, having your upload end up a little
longer or shorter isn't a problem.  However, if you are using BINARY
mode, the file should end up being exactly the same size.

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