ASCII or Binary

[kevinzhai]

What will happen if I ftp/tftp a simple text file using the Binary mode? Will I mess it up? What about ftp/tftp a executable file using the ASCII mode?

[pbharris]

bianry mode is fine, i use it for about everything. the worst i have seen is having strange charactors in place of return charactors.

[bdg1983]

Yeah, sometimes if you transfer a text file from a unix server to a windows box in binary mode, the line breaks will be fubared, because *nix and 'doze have two different formats for line breaks (CRLF vs LF, I believe...)