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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 07:45:03 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, Mike Castle said:
> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:27:41 -0500
>
> Would it not be better for you to force the download with ascii mode or
> inform the person that their site is broken because they put up DOS mode
> text on a Unix server?
>
The Internet is supposed to be oblivious to the genus of the server. DOS
mode text is a more venerable Internet convention than UNIX mode. And,
I suspect (I need to consultRFC 959), the general standard for FTP
interchange of text files.
What do you perceive as broken about a server?
-- gil
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- Re: lynx-dev Potential patch for HTFTP.c, (continued)
Re: lynx-dev Potential patch for HTFTP.c, Patrick, 2000/08/06
Re: lynx-dev Potential patch for HTFTP.c, David Woolley, 2000/08/06
- Re: lynx-dev Potential patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/06
- Re: lynx-dev Potential patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/07
- lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Mike Castle, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c,
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- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Mike Castle, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Klaus Weide, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/07
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, pg, 2000/08/08
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/08
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, pg, 2000/08/08
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Mike Castle, 2000/08/08
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, David Woolley, 2000/08/10
- Re: lynx-dev Revised patch for HTFTP.c, Thomas Dickey, 2000/08/10