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From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
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Subject: Re: tenex vs. binary (was: Re: GARBO.UWASA.FI)
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Date: 20 Mar 91 02:10:14 GMT
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BINARY means use "image" mode.  That means trasfer the file as-is.
This works when your host and the distant host have the same word-size
and byte-order.

TENEX mode is a synonym for these two commands:

type binary
quote "TYPE L 8"

That sets the transfer to binary mode but makes FTP deal with the file
as 8-bit binary with a known standard byte-order.

Remember references to big indian versus little indian byte-order?

Keith
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