Re: [Sheflug] I hate Windoze, Samba and RAID.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> Autodetecting doesn't always work, and command line ftp
    Al> commands often default to ascii. The difference is bigger than
    Al> you would think, if you ever wondered why the options were
    Al> there.

I don't know a Unix program that autodetects, and I can't imagine a
Wintel program that would.  Some will guess based on file extension,
but that is _not_ autodetection.

It would be rather easy and very efficient to autodetect the kind of
corruption you're talking about:  just XOR the high bit and puke on
TRUE.  I don't know why servers don't do that.  It's certainly

    Al> P.S. I *did* warn you of the consequences of making a pact
    Al> with UNIX satan, didn't I? Not that I'm sayng it's related, of
    Al> course, but I suspect your machine of working against you ;))

Not likely.  The decision to use an ASCII or binary transfer is made
by the client.  Every Unix FTP client I know of defaults to binary
(safe), all DOS/Windows clients I know of default to ASCII.  AFAIK
Windows doesn't supply a server, therefore Barrie was using a Windose
client, and caught one.

With the exception of things like LILO, which is NOT part of Unix
anyway (it's a BIOS app), I have always found Unix much safer.  I
stopped using the Norton Utilities and 4DOS cold when switched to
Linux, and have never missed them.  Under DOS/DESQview/Windows I used
them every minute for command line editing (which all modern Unix
shells had supplied for a decade before 4DOS), every hour for HELP
(4DOS's was always morecomplete than even the Microsoft printed
manual---and Unix has had man pages since the 70s), and daily for
undelete (which I have only wanted twice under Linux ext2, both times
due to a faulty ROM on an MO drive which lied about how big it was and
corrupted the root and its immediate subdirectories).

_I_ make far more mistakes than even DOS does, but far fewer under
Unix than DOS.  "There is no such thing as a dangerous OS, only
dangerous users."  :)

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