Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: FTP Helpppp Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 90 19:47:19 GMT Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 19 In-reply-to: kgs9698@cec1.wustl.edu's message of 11 Apr 90 20:43:20 GMT >The file transfer works fine, but when I try to zoo or zip or arc >on any of the files....only some of the files extract properly.... >a lot of times my amiga just crashes..... Make sure you are in binary mode for the transfer by typing: ftp> binary before you start the transfer. On SUNOS4 the default is ascii. This catches me regularly. Hope this is it, Andrew -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus