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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Short: B
5Long: use-ascii
6Help: Use ASCII/text transfer
7Protocols: FTP LDAP
8Category: ftp output ldap
9Added: 5.0
10Multi: boolean
11See-also:
12  - crlf
13  - data-ascii
14Example:
15  - -B ftp://example.com/README
16---
17
18# `--use-ascii`
19
20Enable ASCII transfer mode. For FTP, this can also be enforced by using a URL
21that ends with `;type=A`. This option causes data sent to stdout to be in text
22mode for Win32 systems.
23