Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] corrupted downloads
From: Jonathan Peterson (jon@amxdigital.com)
Date: Mon Mar 16 1998 - 05:07:17 EST
At 03:14 PM 3/14/98 -0500, William LeFebvre wrote:
>You wrote:
>>
>> This is probably silly, but why can't I download a mac file off the
>> internet, put in into the share folder, copy it out to the mac and expand
>> it with say stuffIt? I have tried a few times and everytime, I get file is
>> corrupted message.
>
>If you are downloading it with FTP, then are you doing a binary
>transfer? If the transfer is not binary, then the file will almost
>certainly become corrupt.
>
Also, make sure that CR/LF translation is turned off in netatalk. By
default this is done automatically, and you have to turn it off my
uncommenting the line in the Makefile, and re-compiling.
I have to say that I think this is a very silly default. How many users are
there that use netatalk _only_ for ASCII files??
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Jon Peterson jon@amxdigital.com +44 (0)171 613 5300
Internet Developer
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