Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday
From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 - Where is it?
Summary: No! No!
Message-ID: <5242@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:39:45 GMT
References: <10153@cbnews.ATT.COM> <2081@leah.Albany.Edu>
Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca
Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Distribution: na
Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 29

In article <2081@leah.Albany.Edu> ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue) writes:
>   BINARY - must be specified before GETing a binary file (anything in
>              .ZOO, .ZIP, .ARC, .EXE, or .COM format is binary). This
>              tells the machine that you are transferring a binary file
>              rather than an ascii file.
>(...)
>commands I have stated may be slightly different (I believe the BINARY
>command is different, but I don't remember what it is).

You bet it's different! You must say either:

	tenex

or:

	type l 8
	     ^---that's an L, not a 1

to get around some peculiarities in how Simtel20 stores its files.

If your ftp client is braindamaged and doesn't understand either of the above
(there are a few that don't) you need to say:

	binary
	quote type l 8

You'll get a warning from Simtel20 when you specify `binary'. Ignore it.

...laura