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Changing binary file to readable text file
I have a program that creates a file that stores text like this:
application/octet-stream; charset=binary
now i need to convert this file to this:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
i know this is ...
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Why does Mercurial think my source files are binary?
I've been working on a programming project in Notepad, so far. Today, I opened my source files in an IDE to debug one thing, and the IDE converted saved my files as binary (or so Mercurial reports, ...
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Unconvert Text File from Binary Format
I've got a rather large CSV file (~700MB) which I know to consist of lines of 27-character alpha-numeric hashes; no commas or anything fancy. Somehow, during its migration from Windows to Linux (via ...
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What's the point of ASCII mode in FTP?
Why is there an ASCII mode in FTP, which is prevalent in today's software and FTP implementations? Why not just always use binary regardless of the data?
