Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp(1) man page Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960714213538.225D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Bradley Dunn wrote: > Hmmm... man ftp says this: > > ascii Set the file transfer type to network ASCII. This is the > default type. > > Yet binary mode seems to be the default. Am I missing something? It depends on the client. Some ftp's (notably ncftp) reset it to binary without telling. Logins are explicitly set to binary (ftp will let you know). anonymous should default to ascii (although I noted that a xfer from wcarchive today was binary. Hm.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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