Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!stuckey From: stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: HyperC Dox online Message-ID: <1991Jun7.152717.11760@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 15:27:17 GMT References: <91Jun6.132038edt.23814@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19 GRAY@ADMIN.HumberC.ON.CA (Kelly Gray) writes: >The documentation for HyperC IS packed with Binscii and Shrinkit. > For somw starnge reason though you must specify an ASCII transfer >or else all you get is garbage. My experience also. the reason you get garbage is that some machines aren't ascii. so ftp does character set translations in "ascii" mode taht it doesn't do in binary. (like CRLF -> CR) >There is one file that I never did get though. I forget which one it was, >(I'd have to check the disks I have at home) but whenever I tried to get >that file, the connection would be forced to a binary transfer, and I'd get >garbage. I got them all, I think from wuarchive. -- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu