Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!hokulea!doug From: doug@hokulea.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 file transfers never finish -- am I doing something wrong? Message-ID: <3804@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 20 Apr 89 18:26:02 GMT References: <8904181553.AA29421@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <18402@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu Reply-To: doug@loihi.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) Organization: University of Hawaii, Honolulu Lines: 27 In article <18402@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> gpoy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sheldon Luberoff) writes: >I tried the following seqence of Ftp commands in lieu of the "tenex" command: > >ftp>binary > >ftp>quote "TYPE L 8" > This sequence may be used for FTP programs that don't have the "tenex" command. What this is doing is setting your computer and the computer you're connected to into binary mode (with the "binary" command). It then sets the machine you are connected to into tenex mode ('quote "TYPE L 8" '). If you were just to do a 'quote "TYPE L 8" ' without "binary" first then your machine would be left in ascii mode while the other machine would be in tenex mode. If you were to type "binary" after 'quote "TYPE L 8" ', it would set the machine you are connected to into "tenex" mode and then to binary mode. This you don't want. There isn't any difference in doing this then typing "tenex" in FTP that has that option. *=================================================* * Douglas Myhre * * Hawaii Institute of Geophysics * * Research Computing Facility * * 2525 Correa Rd. * * Honolulu, HI 96822 * *=================================================*