What File Type to use? - Apache commons

[raj NZ]

Hi,
I have downloaded a package from the apache commons website
to handle FTP. I've got it working OK, but am a bit confused on
when to set the file type. At the moment I am just using the
default which is

ftpClient.setFileType(FTP.ASCII_FILE_TYPE).

How can I tell when I need to change this for a certain type of file ?

[Layne Lund]

Most FTP clients I use the file extension to detect whether to transfer in ASCII or binary mode. Typically the user can configure which extensions are ASCII text. Perhaps you can use a similar scheme.

Layne

[yathish Gatty]

Hi,
I too m using commons-net library for ftp purpose.I got a problem i m not able to list files in the specified path if the path has spaces in between them.
For eg:/lib/lib stand is not able to detect.

can you please help me out in this.

Thanks in advance.