Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:47:55 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: dunn@harborcom.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp(1) man page Message-ID: <877.837416875@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:05:52 CDT." <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net>
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"Bradley Dunn" wrote in message ID <199607150311.XAA09598@ns2.harborcom.net>: > Hmmm... man ftp says this: > ascii Set the file transfer type to network ASCII. This is the > default type. > Yet binary mode seems to be the default. Am I missing something? ascii mode IS the default, if you read the login sequence carefully, if the remote machine is ID'd as being UN*X, it goes to binary mode. Otherwise, it's ASCII ... this is probably a small oversight in the docs more than anything. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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