Hello everyone! I am working on a CGI script for my website and things are moving along nicely. I have a book that is about Perl specifically and includes a few chapters on CGI. One of the more useful features of this book is a list of important things to remember, and on that list it says that when you're FTPing your CGI script you should send it in ASCII mode as opposed to binary. That's an easy enough thing to do, but I don't understand why. It seems to me that it's the same information either way, so why does it matter? I've been scouring the book for an explanation and if it's there I don't see it. Would one of you mind shedding some light on this for me? Thanks! 
     - pikus
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