Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!umb!ileaf!io!bcking
From: bcking@io.UUCP (Christine King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: FTPing TAR file to VMS machine.
Message-ID: <524@io.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 21:04:02 GMT
References: <8712261653.AA07106@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Interleaf Inc, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 11
Summary: Use >binary


The 'tar' file is not an ASCII file: you have to tell FTP that it's of
type "binary" or "image" (same thing).  So:

    ftp> image
    ftp> put file.tar
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