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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Subject: Re: tenex vs. binary (was: Re: GARBO.UWASA.FI)
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Date: 20 Mar 91 19:19:53 GMT

w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:

>rcotl@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Tim Liddelow [The Mad Monk]) writes:
>> Transfers from simtel-20 in binary mode work fine here.

>That's because about six months ago SIMTEL20 modified the TOPS-20 FTP
>server so that when a user requests binary mode the server uses tenex
>mode for binary files and transfers text files as-is with CRLF end of
>lines.  This means that if you use binary mode to get all files they
>will be received in a form that's MS-DOS compatible, whether they be
>ARCs, ZIPs, or text files.

>If you use tenex mode the binary files will transfer ok but the text
>files will be received as garbage.  If you have questions about this,
>please send email to:   Action@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL

So, the net result of this is that you should never user tenex, right?
(I had noticed as well that binary seemed to work just fine.  In fact, I
set binary everywhere, and I just wish it were the default for FTP)
