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PeterDonis
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Svein said:Transferring a bit stream has the same inherent problems as transferring binary files
It has some of the same inherent problems, yes. But those problems are lower level than the application/protocol level. At the application/protocol level, FTP is specialized for transferring files (which don't have to be binary, FTP has a text mode as well--not that I would recommend using it, but it has one ). And actually it's not a very good protocol for transferring files, since it requires two TCP connections instead of one and coordination between the two connections (control and data) is clunky.