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From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP, a simple HOW-TO
Keywords: Here, its simple, its easy, it short, its FTP, so quit asking already.
Message-ID: <1133@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 89 03:44:07 GMT
References: <2311@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna)
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In article <2311@uokmax.UUCP> noel@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf) writes:
>

>    I'm not really going to explain how to transfer files, because thats 
>what man pages are for, and it's pretty straigt forward, BUT, if you are 
>going to transfer binary, or zoo, or anything other than straight simple 
>text, use "binary", or it won't work right.

Actually binary doesn't work right either.  I downloaded a lot of .arc files
and almost all of them were corrupt.  I found that 'tenex' works the best in
my experience.

>    Oh, also, I'm not going to post all of the FTP sites for *.amiga.* 
>because they can be found on swan.ulowell.edu in the amiga section.
>(if you can't get to swan for some ungodly reason, try uunet.uu.net.  If
>you can't get to there, give up.)

Thanks for the info.  I might just do that.  :-)

	Sri