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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FTP file transfer Date: 26 Nov 1994 21:26:41 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3b896h$2mf@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <porter-261194132903@f180-078.net.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, ron porter (porter@chem.wisc.edu) had the courage to say: : Hello, : I've been downloading the tar.gz files for XFree86 with FTP : and have been wondering, are gzip files in ASCII or Binary form? : Ron : -------------------------------------------------------- : Ron Porter : porter@chem.wisc.edu : -------------------------------------------------------- They're binary files. Fortunately for you, many FTP clients are smart enough to switch into binary mode automatically when connecting to other UNIX hosts, so unless you've been deliberately telling FTP to transfer everything in ASCII, you should be okay. (I always type 'bin' immediately after logging into an FTP server out of force of habit.) Just try gunzipping one of them. If gunzip barfs, you're using the wrong format. -- -Bill Paul wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu