[lug] Bareline Feeds in FTP.

[John Starkey]

> Hmm, i haven't used ftp for quite a while, but as far as i remember there's
> a lot of plaintext involved. The first thing that comes to mind:
>  Does your friend use binary or ascii mode transfer. Some ftp servers
>  or clients try to do file conversion during transfer (so if you send
>  a DOS file to an unix server and set the transfer type to ascii the
>  server would drop the non-unix carriage returns in fron of the line
>  feed characters). 

ASCII transfer. (It was in the error, sorry I forgot). 

> Maybe he saved his files with the unix line end convention ans his client
> program tries to do the cr/lf conversion and gets confused because it
> expects cr/lf and only finds lf (wich might be called 'bare linefeed').

ok. i just tracked it down. 

I saved as Unix from HomeSite. I was just told that yes, HomeSite strips
the CR from the line. So I saved as Unix and uploaded as ASCII and rec'd
the error. 

Thanks. Right on target.

John