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Subject: Re: Downloading from Simtel ...
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Date: 16 Oct 89 18:27:07 GMT
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	>The problem with this is that MGET and MPUT don't work.  Tough luck.

	Just to expand on this a little....the reason MGET and MPUT from a BSD
	client to a TOPS-20 server don't work is because the remote server will
	return an error message in response to the NLST command. It complains that
	you must be in ascii mode to do an NLST.

The Host Requirements Working Group struggled with this issue, and reached
what seemed to be an acceptable decision.  See section 4.1.2.7 of RFC-1123.

Bob Braden