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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find whether a file is transferred thro bin or ascii mode? Post 302270326 by ultimatix on Sunday 21st of December 2008 05:19:44 AM
Old 12-21-2008
On opening the file from ftp server if you could find extra characters (square shaped) appended all over the file . U can assume that the transfer mode is ASCII.. and if not then Binary ..
Binary is the preferred mode of file transfer
 

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Binary.peekString(3kaya)				       Kaya module reference					  Binary.peekString(3kaya)

NAME
Binary::peekString - Read a String from binary data. SYNOPSIS
String peekString( Binary block, Int offset ) ARGUMENTS
block The binary block offset The location to read from (starting from zero) DESCRIPTION
Peek at the string val starting at offset offset An Binary.OffsetOutOfRange(3kaya) exception will be thrown if it attempts to access a value outside the block. Note that Kaya assumes the String is stored in the block in UTF-8 encoding, with null-termination. AUTHORS
Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/ LICENSE
The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation. RELATED
Binary.Binary(3kaya) Binary.array(3kaya) Binary.getBlockChunk(3kaya) Binary.peek(3kaya) Binary.pokeString(3kaya) Kaya October 2012 Binary.peekString(3kaya)
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