[FX.php List] [OFF] All/Most files appearing with ".bin" extension?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Alex and Dale,

Thanks.  The problem has "gone away" after I performed a couple of 
'knee-jerk' procedures:
	- Rebuilt Permissions on local machine
	- DiskWarrior local machine
...although this doesn't explain why it was only happening to one 
remote OS X Server.

The problem was scary in that my edits to an existing script would be 
written to a new file on the remore server (file.php.bin) instead of 
the original file (file.php). That would leave me with copies. Not 
good.

Let's hope that it doesn't happen again....soon.

Jonathan

At 9:53 AM -0500 3/16/07, Dale Bengston wrote:
>I've never seen this happen because of OS X Server. I think it's a 
>function of how TextWrangler is set up. I recall that Fetch, the 
>ancient FTP client for OS9, would force binary too, unless you 
>manually shut it off.
>
>Dale
>
>On Mar 16, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Alex Gates wrote:
>
>>Hi Jonathan-
>>
>>I believe the .bin extension is added because OS X server has automatic
>>MacBinary-encoding.
>>
>>I know this can be turned off by adding
>>
>>influence_listings no
>>
>>to the end of /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess
>>
>>But I am not sure if that is recommended or not.  I don't have much
>>experience with encoding and I don't really know how likely files are to
>>become corrupt when transferring.
>>
>>I'm not sure how BBEdit works remotely (I'm still using TextWrangler) -
>>or if the encoding settings are set inside BBEdit or if it uses the FTP
>>server from OS X.
>>
>>This link may be helpful:
>>http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107171
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
>>Schwartz
>>Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:21 PM
>>To: FX.php Discussion List
>>Subject: [FX.php List] [OFF] All/Most files appearing with ".bin"
>>extension?
>>
>>Hmmm....
>>
>>On one of my client servers (OS X Server 10.4.8)  while working
>>remotely using BBEdit (8.6), files started appearing in the BBEdit
>>browser with ".bin" appended to all /most existing file names:
>>	bah.php	-->	blah.php.bin
>>	blah.html	-->	blah.html.bin
>>
>>I'm even seeing duplcates of the same file:
>>	blah.php.bin
>>	blah.php.bin
>>
>>However, when looking at the actual folder in on the server, these
>>two same files appear as:
>>	blah.php
>>	blah.php.bin.
>>
>>This is happening with the entire folder on files.
>>
>>Isn't happening with other servers.
>>
>>What's going on?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Jonathan
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