Hi,

am trying to figure out programming language and already stomped. i did some searching around for a topic that will explain what ASCII mean?

all am trying to do is upload a script, i added the db, added user, edited the variables,
and upload. The only i did not do, is change the CHMOD stuff and this ASCII.

how do i know my ftp is uploading in binary, how can i change that and/or edit via cpanel..

crazy question

boris

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and is basically a standard character encoding scheme for use in computers. The basic ASCII character set only has 127 chars, so they fit into 7 bits. This means that only half the available combinations in a byte are valid ASCII characters, so if you upload as ASCII the bits get shuffled around so they are valid text. If the file is text that's great, but if it's an image or a program binary or anything that is not raw text, it gets scrambled. Most FTP apps will detect automatically the type of file, but sometimes get it wrong if the file has bits of ASCII here and there. Changing to binary mode will be a different process in each FTP program, but theres usually an option for it in some menu or other.

you select binary or ascii in the ftp client, you dont need to touch the server config
the chmod can also be done from the ftp client