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From: beh@wookumz.bu.edu (Bruce E. Howells)
Subject: Re: DOWNLOADING from ummts.cc.umich.edu PC5:
In-Reply-To: ag0514@leah.albany.edu's message of 21 Mar 91 18:23:54 GMT
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In article <AG0514.91Mar21132354@leah.albany.edu> ag0514@leah.albany.edu (Andy Goldstein) writes:


   Using ASCII mode I have downloaded many files without problem.....


Some Unix ftp programs have an annoying habit of guessing tranfer modes.
Basically, if they're talking to a machine it recognizes as Unix, it
*automatically* goes to binary if you haven't told it otherwise.

If you have one of these guessing ftp's, explicitly tell it "ascii" before
getting files.


Bruce Howells,  beh@gnu.ai.mit.edu