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From: FISHER@CICGE.RPI.EDU ("John S. Fisher")
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: More Help on ARC Files
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 08:30:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 08:30:55 1987
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I do not know much about the FTP facilities on your VAX, but I do
know that there has been some historical confusion about the
appropriate TYPE command needed when fetching binary files.  The
Tops-20 system (Simtel20) supports variable "byte" sizes, and it
is necessary to inform FTP what byte size is being used.
    The archive blurb suggests TYPE L 8 (meaning an 8-bit byte)
for binary transfers.  I have never gotten this to work on my
IBM host, but TYPE L 32 works just fine (plus one other command
to disable ASCII->EBCDIC translation).  You might try preceding
the RETR command in FTP with TYPE.  If your implementation does
not support the TYPE command, try QUOT TYPE L 32 (or 8).