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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.