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Binary Mode
Text files (such as those in ASCII) are not sent in binary mode via FTP. If text file is sent in binary mode to another machine the file will be corrupt or garbled. ASCII and other text formats don't encode end-of-line information into their data-they simply use a special character. For that reason, FTP client software almost always has the option to send files as text or binary. In text mode, the data gets translated properly so it arrives in a readable format. However, performing this translation on an executable or ZIP file would corrupt that data. For these types of files, you would use binary mode. Most FTP clients include an auto-detect feature that can switch the software between modes based on the file's extension.
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