From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 21:36:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA23233 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA23228 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00259; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:36:45 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Bradley Dunn cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp(1) man page In-Reply-To: <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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