FTP using IE6

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Hey,

I use IE6 to FTP files but have a problem.
When transferring files, IE6 transfers them
using the binary format; is there a way to
make IE6 transfer files using the ASCII format?

Thank you,
Steve.

 

[smitee]

Hey..

Found this but not sure it is gospel..

http://www.utoronto.ca/ns/utorweb/ftp-ie.html

Internet Explorer does all transfers in ftp binary mode; ASCII transfers are not available. As a consequence, all text files uploaded from Windows using Internet Explorer (or using ftp from a Save As ... dialog in an application such as Microsoft Word) have lines ending in a carriage return and linefeed characters. (MacOS uses only carriage return as a line terminator, UNIX uses just a linefeed as a line terminator.) This should not affect most customers. For HTML files, a carraige return character is treated as white space by all browsers. For those that need ASCII transfer, see the section Very Advanced usage at the end of our WS_FTP instructions.

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