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[Bill Wisner <wisner@ims.alaska.edu>]

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From: wisner@ims.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Subject: Re: FTP correction
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.214620.4865@ims.alaska.edu>
Organization: Amnesia International
References: <460CE45360608E5B@ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 21:46:20 GMT
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>	   Second, when you get the  HAYES.IMS.ALASKA.EDU> prompt, enter  USER 
>ANONYMOUS, not just ANONYMOUS.

This is version specific.  Most versions of FTP (i.e., those based
upon the UNIX implementation) automatically prompt for a username
after the connection is established.  The Multinet VMS version
doesn't.

>	  One suggestion I would add concerning his properly emphasized reminder
>to make it a BINARY transfer:  for safety, you can set FTP in binary mode from
>the start by invoking it with that switch, i. e. enter FTP /BINARY.

This also is version specific.  Most versions don't have a command
line switch that turns on binary mode; usually, you must type "binary"
at the FTP prompt.

Yours for nonstandard software,

Bill Wisner <wisner@ims.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
And we pause for the jets.