Quote Originally Posted by itCbitC View Post
Exactly my point.

Why would someone ftp the binary output to another system and read it there when the right thing is to move source code and ascii input files, and re-compiling; unless someone isn't well versed with block I/O.
I was thinking ascii and binary files would not be used at the same time, but rather one format would be chosen over the other. I was simply trying to raise the issue of portability as a possible issue :-)