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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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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