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cannot put in files as ASCII text!!!!! (5 posts)
- Started 21 years ago by mpxxxxx
- Latest reply 21 years ago from Jim Matthews
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mpxxxxx Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
If you choose "Text" from the Format pop-up menu Fetch will upload as ASCII text. Fetch always says "Unknown format" initially when you start a download, until it figures out how it is handling the transfer.
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
mpxxxxx Member
I set it to TEXT but it uploads as something else. Could it be the Linux server that is the problem?
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mpxxxxx Member
To clarify the above:
IT is really odd that when I try and upload a text file, then change the suffix of the file after the dot to something else it ceases to be recognized as a text file anymore. So
d.txt
to
d.comp
turns the file from ASCII text to an unknown format.
What is going on? Is this the server, or Fetch - and why????? Please somebody, HELP! -
Jim Matthews Administrator
Changing the name does not change the file contents, but it does change what Fetch thinks the contents are. So Fetch will display a different label in the Kind field of the file list, and may download the file in a different mode (Binary instead of Text, for instance). You can keep that from happening by adding a suffix mapping for the new extension.
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks
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No matter what I do, I cannot upload a file into my folder as an ASCII text! I do all the right things, like pick Text instead of Automatic etc. but it refuses to be accepted as text. It says UNKNOWN Format, even though I KNOW it is a text file! (Possibly the problem is the suffix to the file? X.conf?) What is happening??? (I don't THINK I am being stupid, but who knows?) I am using a Mac G4, OS 9.1, Fetch 4.0something.
Posted 21 years ago #