On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:45:17PM -0400, jonl@yubyub.net wrote:
> No - they have nothing to do with each other.  Using ASCII transfers
> simply asks the client to to CR/LF translations on the file, so that
> transferring a Unix text file to a Windows/DOS box doesn't confuse poor
> text editors ;-)
> 
> Also, AFAIK, the conversion is done in the client code, not the server
> (could be wrong here), so NetBSD's interpretation of the file doesn't come
> into play.

If you FTP a text file from a Unix box to an MVS system (client on Unix,
MVS server) then the file will be converted from/to ASCII to/from EBCDIC.
This happens on the server side.

I would tend to believe that it always happens on the server side.
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724:
DO NOT EXPOSE MOUSE PAD TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME.