timk@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (04/23/89)
/* Written 1:47 pm Apr 20, 1989 by t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu in zaphod:comp.sys.mac */ /* ---------- "FTP text files with NCSA Telnet?" ---------- */ What is the trick to downloading text files from a Unix machine using NCSA Telnet/ftp and getting carriage returns? -- Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu /* End of text from zaphod:comp.sys.mac */ The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) defines the end of line translation for ASCII files. Therefore, the default mode on most machines and all Unix machines that I know of will handle the conversion automatically. This is ASCII mode. Binary mode will preserve the linefeeds and confuse Macintosh text file editors. Tim Krauskopf NCSA