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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: simibm.zip corrupted?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.184415.21207@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <Z3uVVB1w165w@msgpad.uucp> <1992Dec18.051821.28387@uwasa.fi> <1992Dec18.150500.13029@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:44:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.150500.13029@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> murray@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com (Charlie Murray) writes:
- >|> >> Yes, your PKUNZIP is outdated. Most recent files on SIMTEL20 require
- >|> >> PKZUNIP ver 1.10, which has been available for over two years.
- >|> >
- >|> >Sounds more like he's been doing ASCII transfers instead of BINARY.
- >
- >ASCII versus BINARY does not matter for ftp. I just ftp'ed /unix using ascii
- >and binary, and then did a cksum and sum. The files were identical. The
- >ascii transfer just took longer. I don't know if this is specifc to AIX,
- >but I doubt it.
-
- No, Charlie. I would say that the preceding comments are still
- correct. What you are telling must be a special case. Under the
- prevalent transfer situations I can assure you that the difference
- matters. Did you explicitly set the trasnfer ascii and then binary,
- because the default may vary from site to site.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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