Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files (really AutoFTP) Message-ID: <447@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 11 Dec 89 15:54:24 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 14 In article w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: * Ken, AutoFTP defaults to whatever the last FTP mode was. This was * done do it wouldn't be necessary to put the mode on each line of the * list of files. You only have to put the mode in when it changes. Yep, and that's not all... The user must remember that "binary" and "tenex" modes are not the same, 8-( , even though both apply to "binary" files! Between missing mode-flags and wrong mode-flags, I got myself tangally totalled. My aplologies to the author for what may have seemed (to some) a flame, and for what may have given some (many?) reservation about using Autoftp. ----------- Autoftp is a _damnfine_ piece of work. ------------ regardz and chagrinz, Ken