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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!wupost!gumby!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!isi.edu!allard From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: RAWRITE jams Message-ID: <22213@venera.isi.edu> Date: 14 Aug 92 21:40:28 GMT References: <22203@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@isi.edu Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Distribution: world Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 14 I wrote: > I downloaded tools/ from agate.berkely.edu onto a floppy > RAWRITE.EXE does not work either in DOS (DRDOS) or in an OS/2 WHOOPS. I used ftp with ASCII type transfer instead of BINARY type. I am redownloading with binary and expect the problem to evaporate. Why doesn't ftp make binary transfers the default, since they seem to work with everything? Is this some kind of efficiency issue, or what? Dennis G. Allard internet: allard@isi.edu tel: 310-399-4740 fax: 310-399-2722