Re: ASCII text garbled on FTP download?

From: Bill S. (ziphem_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/17/04

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    Date: 16 Apr 2004 19:53:56 -0700

    > Arrrggghhh - Im guessing your American ... Texas maybe ?

    Gosh that was pretty funny! I liked the Bush allusion. Or wait -
    maybe those grammatical errors were not on purpose? Im = I'm, your
    vs. you're, etc.

    I posted here for help, not attitude. If I didn't understand your
    'obvious' explanation, maybe part of the problem was that you were not
    all that clear?

    I got it. Thanks for the effort, I'll still give you an A.

    root <root@home.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.04.16.21.49.41.43603@home.com>...
    > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:53:06 -0700, Bill S. wrote:
    >
    > > Ok, this helps. Thanks for the advice. btw when I go to dosshell and
    > > edit the 1.cgi, it's formatted ok. So the problem is my notepad.exe
    >
    > Arrrggghhh - Im guessing your American ... Texas maybe ?
    >
    > "edit" will edit CR terminated text (unix) - saving the file always
    > generate CR+LF terminated text (windows). So loading the file into edit
    > and saving it again converts from one to the other using only the windows
    > machine.
    >
    > Can you feel me banging my head on the desk yet ?
    >
    > After all this im convinced you still don't understand the problem.....
    >
    > http://www.asciitable.com/
    > http://www.indiwiz.com/linux/browse/Tutorials/General/dosunix.php
    >
    >
    >
    > >
    > > The reason why I use notepad is it's easier, as the files are sitting on
    > > my computer. As the webpages I have get bigger, I've started to back
    > > them up - tar them and ftp the tars to my Windows machine to store them
    > > there - cause the thought of re-uploading everything, permissions, etc.,
    > > makes me ill.
    > >
    > > As for the unix2dos, I need to install that on my server.
    > Is it Redhat ? Sure its not installed ??
    >
    > If I run the
    > > command for all files in the directory, will it destroy any non-text
    > > files, like gifs etc?
    >
    > Yes, you would need to write a 3 line shell script, good luck.
    >
    > Jon

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