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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ftp - determine ascii or binary file Post 302128054 by Perderabo on Saturday 21st of July 2007 10:15:36 AM
Old 07-21-2007
Most of those windows GUI clients guess the file type based on the file's extention. Try:
echo "hello" > hello.txt
echo "hello" > hello.gif
and then view the files in ftp GUI window. Most GUI clients will think that the first file is ascii and the second file is binary. You can emulate this behavior by making similiar guesses.
 

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API(3m17n)							 The m17n Library						    GUI API(3m17n)

NAME

       GUI_API - API provided by libm17n-gui.so.

   Modules
       Frame

       A frame is an object corresponding to the graphic device.
   Font

       Font object.
   Fontset

       A fontset is an object that maps a character to fonts.
   Face

       A face is an object to control appearance of M-text.
   Drawing

       Drawing M-texts on a window.
   Input Method (GUI)

       Input method support on window systems.

Detailed Description
       API provided by libm17n-gui.so.

       GUI support for a window system.

       This section defines the m17n GUI API concerning M-text drawing and inputting under a window system.

       All the definitions here are independent of window systems. An actual library file, however, can depend on a specific window system. For
       instance, the library file m17n-X.so is an example of implementation of the m17n GUI API for the X Window System.

       Actually the GUI API is mainly for toolkit libraries or to implement XOM, not for direct use from application programs.

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