From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 18 20:54:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13378 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6547.on.bellglobal.com (ppp7263.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13370 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:54:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6547.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA07805; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:52:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp6547.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:52:31 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@ppp6547.on.bellglobal.com Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: Studded@dal.net, hoek@hwcn.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6039 In-Reply-To: <199803182225.QAA07300@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > At work, I frequently transfer .zip files with Netscape with no > corruption. Most people using 'weird' ftp clients (ncftp, et al) Probably because it's a .zip file and is quickly/easily recognized as requiring binary mode. Our .flp ending probably causes ftp clients which try to auto-guess the mode confusion. I recall having this problem with Lynx downloading the *.flp files at one time. To get around it, I used wcarchive's auto tar & gz feature so the the filename ended in .tar.gz, making it obvious to Lynx to use binary mode. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message