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RE: Download ascii file with FTP client Solaris and other server (aix, hpux, vms, True64unix)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:30:40 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 delphine.menjikoff_at_orsyp.com wrote:

> Somebody had certainly the same problem already...(download an ascii file is
> very current) How do you resolve it?

You can often do more or less ugly post-processes of the file, if you know
exactly what system you got the file from.

The only *real* and sensible solution is to fix libcurl to support ASCII
transfers correctly.

Quoting section 3.1.1.1 in RFC959:

             The sender converts the data from an internal character
             representation to the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII
             representation (see the Telnet specification). The receiver
             will convert the data from the standard form to his own
             internal form.

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Received on 2005-03-11