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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 TROUBLES
Summary: Ask your local guru, too.
Message-ID: <5145@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 19:10:21 GMT
References: <120800007@silver>
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Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <120800007@silver> sl179060@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>                                                      I follow this
>procedure:
>
>%ftp simtel20.arpa 
>............ sign on message ......
>username:anonymous
>password:{nothing}
>............ login message ........
>ftp>cd pd1:
>ftp>tenex   {I have no idea what this does}

Simtel20 is a DECsystem 20, whose word length is 36 bits. It puts four 8
bit characters into each word, leaving 4 bits at one end of the word unused.
Specifying `tenex' tells it to handle the file specially, skipping those
4 bits. If you specified `binary', it would dole out the file 8 bits at
a time, without regard for word boundaries. Use `ascii' for text files.

>ftp>get gmovie.arc
>ftp>bye

Fine so far...

>%ftp 129.79.101.146  {my workstation}
>ftp>send gmovie.arc
>ftp>quit

Whoa! You must specify file type `binary' (it may be `image' on some systems)
here. Though your Ultrix system and your workstation both speak ASCII, they
differ in some things, like how they delimit lines in files. The default is
to translate Ultrix lines (ending in NL) to MS-DOS lines (CR/LF). You need
to disable this translation.

Postscript (most emphatically *not* a flame): is there any kind of new user
package floating around the net somewhere? Should we create one? There are half
a dozen questions that keep coming up (this is one of them), and it would be
handy to collect answers and tell people `Get a copy of such-and-such; the
answer is there.'

...laura