04-06-2004
I'm not too sure why this is happening for you.
I regularly upload and download to/from my webserver a mix of plain text, HTML, .class, .tar, .gz, etc.. files, ALL using BINARY mode, and have never had any problems.
It is my understanding that using ASCII mode to transfer plain text just allows a slight performance boon by using a slighly more optimised method for encoding the data transfer. But seeing as you are ftp'ing a TAR file, you must use BINARY anyways.....
Is the file plain text to start with? What tar command are you using to bundle everything up?
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