From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 00:48:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA12277 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA12268 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA00881; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:47:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: dunn@harborcom.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: ftp(1) man page In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:05:52 CDT." <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:47:55 -0400 Message-ID: <877.837416875@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Bradley Dunn" wrote in message ID <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net>: > 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? ascii mode IS the default, if you read the login sequence carefully, if the remote machine is ID'd as being UN*X, it goes to binary mode. Otherwise, it's ASCII ... this is probably a small oversight in the docs more than anything. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info