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From: rcotl@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Tim Liddelow [The Mad Monk])
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: tenex vs. binary (was: Re: GARBO.UWASA.FI)
Keywords: ftp
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.045439.11391@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 20 Mar 91 04:54:39 GMT
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jin@spdcc.COM (Jerry Natowitz) writes:

>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)?
>-- 
>     Jerry Natowitz

I'll second that.  Transfers from simtel-20 in binary mode work fine here.
What difference does it make then if you use tenex mode ?  Do you have
to use tenex on some machines with warped O/S's ?

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