>Does anyone know whether there are guidelines for deciding that a file is
>>"text"?  For all I know, if the first 100 characters (ie the version
>banner) >contained a couple of weird character codes, it would suffice to
>discourage all >the standard network programs from messing with it.


Every version of FTP I've ever used on a Unix system defaulted to text
mode, paying no attention to the contents of the file.

Duane