c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Short: B
Long: use-ascii
Help: Use ASCII/text transfer
Protocols: FTP LDAP
Category: misc
Example: -B ftp://example.com/README
Added: 5.0
See-also: crlf data-ascii
Multi: boolean
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Enable ASCII transfer. For FTP, this can also be enforced by using a URL that
ends with ";type=A". This option causes data sent to stdout to be in text mode
for win32 systems.
