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Old 01-01-2008
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Originally Posted by CKIRCH View Post
1- when i ftp DOC, RTF, HTM, HTML, XML from my desktop to our UNIX server (via WS FTP PRO), do i need to use ASCII or BINARY option ?
The two options are basically ascii or binary.

RTF, HTM, HTML, XML are all simple text formats hence ascii will do.

DOC can by *anything* but my guess is it's a MS Word document so use binary.