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From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: ftp(1) man page
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:55:12 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: dunn@harborcom.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <877.837416875@orion.webspan.net> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 15, 96 03:47:55 am
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> 
> "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.

I never thought of the man-page, because ftp tells me

> Connected to server.dekanat-bio.ruhr-uni-bochum.de.
> 220 server.dekanat-bio.ruhr-uni-bochum.de FTP server (Version 6.00) ready.
> Name (server.dekanat-bio:roberte): 
> 331 Password required for roberte.
> Password:
> 230 User roberte logged in.
> Remote system type is UNIX.
                        ====
> Using binary mode to transfer files.
        ======
> ftp>

Except, when it's a Solaris 2.4 machine

> Connected to helios.bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de.
> 220 helios FTP server (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0) ready.
> Name (helios.bph:roberte): 
> 331 Password required for roberte.
> Password:
> 230 User roberte logged in.
> ftp> dir
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (134.147.160.165,40001) (0 bytes).
> -rw-rw-r--   1 roberte  ftirwork     175 Feb 17 11:05 noti
> 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
> ftp> get noti
> local: noti remote: noti
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 ASCII data connection for noti (134.147.160.165,40002) (175 bytes).
      =====
> 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
> 199 bytes received in 0.0014 seconds (1.4e+02 Kbytes/s)
> ftp> quit

Any idea why Solaris isn't Un*x ?
( ftp> system                         )
( 500 'SYST': command not understood. )

( I trap into this nearly everytime I transfer a binary file :-( )


Regards,
Robert

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