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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!telebit!bjork From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) Subject: Sorry, not "type tenex" was Re: Corruption in BIN01.56? Message-ID: <1992Oct5.155204.28769@telebit.com> Sender: news@telebit.com Nntp-Posting-Host: napa.telebit.com Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA References: <adam.717861382@marsh> <1992Oct1.155515.12254@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct4.082800.7011@pimacc.pima.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:52:04 GMT Lines: 13 In article <1992Oct4.082800.7011@pimacc.pima.edu> jlackey@pimacc.pima.edu writes: >I even attempted the same solutions, ie I got the files again, I made sure >I typed 'tenex' (the vax version of binary I guess, can't stand this beast), The ftp transfer type of "tenex" should only be used if you are getting binary files to/from an old DECsystem10 or DECsystem 20. (such as simtel20). That is, unless someone wrote some horribly confused software :(. --Steven