> Agreed. The thing is, if FTP messed up the files, you have a problem
> that you need to fix before trying anything else. Either you messed up
> and used the wrong FTP file type (ASCII vs Binary), or there's something
> wrong with your FTP installation (server or client), or your TCP/IP
> stack or your network is severely messed up. I'd vouch for the first;
> seems to be the most likely.
>
> The error rate that gets past the TCP/IP stack on a LAN should be very
> close to 0. And FTP is good enough to splice the pieces together, again
> with an error rate very close to 0. 
>   
FTP does not do any checking of it's own, if an error gets past the 
TCP/IP stack undetected (very unlikely on a lan) then FTP won't catch it.
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