From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 10:40:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2pub.verizon.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B32C37B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.bol@gte.net) Received: from Ath (cable7-023.gte.net [24.96.36.23]) by smtppop2pub.verizon.net with SMTP ; id MAA118805497 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:44:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "John Bolster" To: "Linh Pham" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" Subject: RE: ftp file corruption Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:42:38 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you, but these clients are already using Binary mode. John Bolster > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Linh Pham > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:28 PM > To: John Bolster > Cc: Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org > Subject: Re: ftp file corruption > > > On 2001-04-23, John Bolster scribbled: > > # I am running FBSD 4.1 release with ftpd. Transferring small files was no > # problem, but I have found repeatedly that once a file gets larger, if I > # upload it to the server then download it from the server, what > I get back is > # the right file size, but corrupted. By corrupted, I mean that > some of the > # pictures in a large Word document will have gone black, or the > install files > # for a program will claim to have a crc error. > > Make sure that you transfer a file in binary mode, not in ASCII mode > (since Word documents, Zip files and almost any other file format except > for plain text files, including HTML, XML, .txt, are binary files). > > If you are doing this through a Windows based FTP client, there should > be an option in the Preferences dialog or the connection dialog to set > the transfer mode to Binary. > > If you are using the command line version of FTP under Windows, type in > `bin' right after you log in to switch to Binary transfer mode. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message