Downloading Gentoo - Binary or ASCII?

[BigUns]

I was about to download the ISO via FTP but I didn’t know if I should use binary or ASCII. I want to use binary but a friend of mine said binary is for graphics and everything else should be downloaded as ASCII. Which method should I use to download the Gentoo ISO? What are the general rules for using binary or ASCII?

[hw-tph]

Download the CD image as binary.

ASCII is text mode and binary is non-text. Most of the time, using binary even for text works better than ASCII since some non-standard (no wait - non-ASCII) character sets can get garbled in transfer when using ASCII transfers.



Håkan

[BigUns]

Thanks. This was a big help. I thought nobody knew the answer.
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BigUns (Brain Lobes...stop thinking nasty)

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