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From: jin@spdcc.COM (Jerry Natowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: tenex vs. binary (was: Re: GARBO.UWASA.FI)
Keywords: ftp
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Date: 19 Mar 91 22:05:35 GMT
References: <12011@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1991Mar19.110958.17619@uwasa.fi> <3067@bimacs.BITNET> <1991Mar19.203443.21165@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jin@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Jerry Natowitz)
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In article <1991Mar19.203443.21165@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
>Tenex and binary are definitely different.  You really don't want to
>know why, trust me.  (The reason is technical and boring.)

I would like to know.  I have been using binary in place of tenex for transfers
from TOPS-20 machines for years and have yet to have a problem.

Luck?  Or does it depend on what you are transferring to (IBM PC/RT running
BSD Unix)?
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