From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 4:39:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (p3Bs11a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.171.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2477015371 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 04:39:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA07279; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:36:00 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:36:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: David Uzzell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS Files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am having trouble storing Dos/Windoze files on freebsd 3.3 ftp server. > When I recieve the files back to a windozes machine they are not know > formats. ie. .wp files that can only be read as .txt files. Have tried > this with all sorts of files and get the same result. Has any one got any > Ideas. Thanks in Advance. > The .wp files are most likely binary. It sounds to me like you are transferring them in ASCII mode. If you are FTP'ing by hand, use the command "type image" to transfer binary, and "type ascii" to transfer as ascii. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message