Webedit HTML Editor - ASCII upload? Was: Link directly to MS Word document

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ASCII upload? Was: Link directly to MS Word document

Andy Dingley

2005-08-13, 7:30 pm

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:14:07 -0700, David Ross <nobody@nowhere.not>
wrote:

>Upload the Word or Excel file to the Web server in binary mode.

Hmm... Don't we upload _everything_ in binary mode these days ?

What happens to "ftp ASCII upload" in this world of XML, UTF-16 etc. ?
Should we be worrying about this ?

And doesn't everyone just have broadband these days and more bandwidth
than the whole of IBM did until a few years ago,

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David Ross

2005-08-14, 7:48 pm

Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:14:07 -0700, David Ross <nobody@nowhere.not>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hmm... Don't we upload _everything_ in binary mode these days ?
>
> What happens to "ftp ASCII upload" in this world of XML, UTF-16 etc. ?
> Should we be worrying about this ?
>
> And doesn't everyone just have broadband these days and more bandwidth
> than the whole of IBM did until a few years ago,

I still upload HTML and CSS files in ASCII mode. I also upload my
UNIX scripts (KSH coded in Wordpad) and ASCII files (TXT) in ASCII
mode. The reason is that I want these files to reside on my Web
server (a UNIX system) with UNIX-type end-of-line (EOL) markings
(LF), not PC-Windows-type EOL markings (CR/LF). FTP converts the
EOL markings from the source type to the destination type when
doing ASCII transfers. This allows me to edit the files on the
server (via a secure Telnet session) using UNIX tools.

I still use a dial-up connection to the Internet. Late last year,
I saw a news item that said almost half of those in the U.S. who
access the Internet from home do so via dial-up modems. This
number might actually increase soon, now that the courts have ruled
that phone and cable TV companies can charge independent ISPs
retail rates for broadband. This means that, if I want broadband,
I must either use Adelphia or SBC for my ISP; or I must pay them
for an unused ISP account merely to get broadband to my current
ISP. I like my current ISP and don't want to change. But I also
don't want to pay for two ISP accounts to use only one.

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