rossi@NUSC.ARPA ("ROSSI J.A.") (03/18/86)
Persons,
For some time I have been trying to get the VAX cluster here at NUSC to
download BINARY files from SIMTEL-20 program directories using FTP.
When I FTP SIMTEL20 the server announces that it has acknowledged the
NUSC FTP and wil6{ communicate in 8-bit bytes (Are there other than 8-bit
bytes?). Typing HELP while in FTP gets me a list of commands including
get and bget. I can GET ASCII files O/K. I made the assumption that BGET was
for binary files. When I use it, something gets transfered from SIMTEL
to NUSC and the files are the correct size, however, when I download from
the 780 at NUSC to my PC (via, XMODEM, KERMIT, MEX etc) I never can
get a file that is not garbage. For example, any squeezed file cannot
be unsqueezed by any USQ, UNSQ, USQxx program I have available. I tried
manually unpacking bytes at nibble intervals to try to find any hidden
ASCII chasracters withj several C progfram attempts, both in VAX 'C' and
in MS-DOS Lattice 'C'. Other people with whom I have communicated with
who have a System-20 running Tops-20 say they have a good deal more parameter
control over the FTP process than I seem to have under VAX/VMS.
Is there a probable cause, solution, etc. for this problem. Is it common
to all VAX/VMS implementations? What can I do to download binary files
using FTP.
Questionably,
John Rossi III
ROSSI@NUSC.ARPA
------rick@NGP.UTEXAS.EDU (Rick Watson) (03/19/86)
Assuming you are running TWG/TCP-IP, use the following commands: *tenex <you will get a response like "<Bytesize 32 ok"> *quote type l 8 (that's an L) *get remotefile localfile (etc...) This is what works for me Rick Watson University of Texas Computation Center arpa: rick@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU rick@ngp.ARPA uucp: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!rick rick@ut-ngp.UUCP bitnet: ccaw001@utadnx phone: 512/471-3241