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Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Nov 4 2003, 08:40 PM
This is on the house... Typically for simple canned scripts, newbies make one of two mistakes:
1) When you uploaded it to the server, you failed to select "ascii" mode for your FTP transfer.
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ASCII mode FTP transfers are generally bad news, no matter what. Sure in this case, it could be safe. But maybe there are some high ascii chars in there.
Even if you are transfering a typed out text file, using binary transfer does not hurt it at all.
How many people have been messed up from doing a default "get" from a windows FTP client (which uses ascii mode by default) on a .mpg or something? haha.
Binary mode will never corrupt data, no matter what it is. ASCII transfer will.