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From: palm@admin.kth.se (Christer Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Help me to download an FTPed file from cica.cica.indian.edu
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.192642.15255@kth.se>
Date: 24 Sep 90 19:26:42 GMT
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In article <26fd3970.27e2@uop.uop.edu> acs17111@uop.edu (Mohd H. Misnan) writes:
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>	that it is in TEXT file and not in Binary as I thought. Do I
>	need to change to binary in Ftp> before I download any zip or

Yes as long as you don't download textfiles you has to change to binary in Ftp
just write "set binary" at the Ftp prompt. 
Programs ar not textfiles, sourcecode is but it's not a program.

/Christer