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how to distinguish different files while ftp?

how to distinguish different files and choose a mode while ftp?means which modes ascii or binary for zip(.gz) ,.txt,.sh,.dat and executable as well as movie files.

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binary vs text files

As a rule, I normally process as binary. Perhaps a pure text (not a Word document file, as there are special encodings) could be text. All the rest, if you transfer not in binary, you will probably experience data issues.

At least, that has been my experience.

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