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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 Added: 5.0 Multi: boolean See-also:

• crlf
• data-ascii Example:
• -B ftp://example.com/README

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--use-ascii

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.