Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!otter!wnr From: wnr@otter.hpl.hp.com (Nigel Rea) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Help! Having problems with FTPed files. Message-ID: <6100003@otter.hpl.hp.com> Date: 14 Mar 89 12:49:55 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 7 Hi there, If you are downloading the files from simtel 20, then the data type is not binary - use "tenex" instead. Simtel20 uses a strange machine with 36 bit words. Have fun ......Nigel