st: Re: corruption

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Yes; if the file is mistakenly FTPd as TEXT rather than BINARY, what 
you describe is just about what I have seen. Make sure that the BNARY 
switch is set, since FTP clients may not know what to do with a .dta 
file.  (Same goes for Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc.,. but 
those have proper MIME types, so FTP clients tend to know that they are 
binary).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> Has anybody ever
> experienced a .dta file getting corrupted by being tranfered via ftp?
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