Unwanted characters in ASCII files

[Isabel Danforth]

Thanks.  I used the ASCII mode to upload my page, and now have  'pure'
white there, and that works fine.  Interesting still how come non-white
stays in the table cell, but white won't. .. Well 

Isabel

At 04:51 PM 11/18/97 -0800, Davin Peterson wrote:
>These unwanted characters are interpreted as end of line markers when
>you upload an ASCII file as a binary file. To avoid these characters in
>an ordinary text or html (which may indeed interfer with the browser's
>parsing of your code) make sure you select ASCII when using an ftp
>program. 
>Some ftp utilities will take care of this problem automatically, others
>don't (including WS_FTP).
>
>These unwanted characters can be ignored by some editors and not by
>others, (eg.. NotePad) making it difficult to detect the problem. This
>is not unique to Win95, it is a common problem.
>cheers
>Davin Peterson
>System Projects
>National Library of Australia
>dpeter at nla.gov.au
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:	Stacy Pober [SMTP:Spober at manhattan.edu]
>>Sent:	Tuesday, 18 November 1997 14:12
>>To:	Multiple recipients of list
>>Subject:	Re: color change for one cell
>>
>> there were little non-ascii codes at the 
>>end of each line of HTML.  These appeared as solid rectangular boxes, 
>>one character in size.   
>
>
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