Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <6703@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 11:58:54 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.6703 Posted: Wed Jul 15 11:58:54 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 00:45:04 EDT References: <4UyCLWy00WAKI9k178@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In article <4UyCLWy00WAKI9k178@andrew.cmu.edu> aad+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >Ahem. Where in the hell are you getting the idea that simtel20 runs tenex? I don't have the impression that anything is implied about operating systems. There is a command in ftp called tenex (command, not o/s) which causes 9 to 8 bit byte packing when going from a 36 bit machine to a 32 bit machine. >See that "20" in there? Check your host table. Simtel20 is running TOPS-20. I doubt that it changes the number of bits. >"rather than unix"? Unix isn't the only os in the world, you know. I'd like >you try to run unix on a 20. I have had no problems whatsoever ftping from >simtel20 on a 780 running unix when doing an image mode transfer. You must be lucky! I have to use tenex for 780's, both UNIX and VMS. My friends have to use it from Suns. Could it be that your system has a version of ftp with default tenex mode? flame on ================ What an rude, arrogant, reply! flame off =============== -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me