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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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