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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> In article <40706b92@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] san rrcom says...
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>>You also need to upload it in "binary" mode, if you're not already.
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> You know.. I never quite understood why such and option even existed. If
> I upload a text file in binary mode is it going to explode or something?
> lol Seriously, the option of which of the two to use only adds confusion
> and makes it more likely that people will screw something up. Data is
> data and all of it is basically binary anyway, the servers don't bloody
> care.
Keep in mind that FTP was originated in 1971 (RFC172), or before. At
the time not every machine had words that were powers of 2 (such as 9
and 36?).
Text mode transfers indicated that the client/server should convert each
"character" to it's local interpretation; an implied conversion. ASCII
to/from EBCIDC (?) might be one such example.
But for binary data -- when transferring from a 16 bit to a 36 bit
computer (for example), some conversion would be required, and the
standard (wisely I think) did not pick one.
That said, though, don't most FTP clients default to binary?
M
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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <4071ad90$1@news.povray.org> , David Burnett
> <var### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote:
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> Well, all current versions of QuickTime produce flat movies by default.
And at no point did he say he used QT. And many new programs do not
produce flattened movies. I do not use QT Pro, I'm not paying $30 for
functionality I can enable with a few lines of code.
We've been through this before
http://news.povray.org/povray.macintosh/thread/%3Cp### [at] ntlworldcom%3E/
> However, fact is that even
> current versions of the two most popular web servers do not come with an
> MPEG-4 content-type setting for files with an MPEG-4 file extension...
Which will usually involve the server downloading a 'text' file, or
whatever the web master has set the server default too. Attempting to
download a file is is not flat file gives the error Anthony described
even if the good old 'Save As' stand by is used.
No one else suggested that it might be a possible cause.
And there was no reason to dismiss it out of hand.
Dave
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