Reading the below, there is no reason to use non binary except that ascii will compress text, [although, I think this is probably trivial (today, not back when 300 baud was state of the art!
] AND if you are transferring from dos to dos, unix to unix, mac to mac. I didn't know that ascii transfer would convert from dos text to unix text (I always simply ran dos2unix <filename>) the odd time I do get/transfer a dos text file. Anyway, you can do a blanket binary transfer, converting dos text as above as needed, or simply, after all the binary transfer, simply enter
bi
again, it will switch back to ascii, and you can mget *.txt, *.html, etc.
RO
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/...ary_ascii.html
The "ASCII" option will allow you to very rapidly transfer text-only files that have been saved in ASCII format. (Compression is used to speed the transfer.) It also adjusts the line-feed characters (return, enter, linefeed, newline) that appear at the end of a line -- and which are different on Windows, MacOS, and Unix computers.