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- 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
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- Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
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- 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
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- WHOOPS. I used ftp with ASCII type transfer instead of BINARY type.
- I am redownloading with binary and expect the problem to evaporate.
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- 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?
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- Dennis G. Allard
- internet: allard@isi.edu
- tel: 310-399-4740
- fax: 310-399-2722
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