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> >Okay, it's early in the day and my brain is failing so I'm writing for help.
> >I've got this sentence: With FTP you can transmit ASCII and binary files.
> >An editor changed the "and" to "or"? So???
> No damn difference that I can see. It sounds like an introductory sentence
> anyway, so any confusion could be easily dispelled later. Frankly, I don't
> see any problem.
Pardon me for defending an editor <G>. I think the point your editor is
making is that one cannot FTP an ASCII and a binary file in the same task.
One can do one OR the other. In retrospect, of course, one could have done
both.
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