[comp.sys.amiga] FTP Helpppp

andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (04/12/90)

>The file transfer works fine, but when I try to zoo or zip or arc
>on any of the files....only some of the files extract properly....
>a lot of times my amiga just crashes.....

Make sure you are in binary mode for the transfer by typing:

ftp> binary

before you start the transfer.  On SUNOS4 the default is ascii.  This
catches me regularly.

Hope this is it,

Andrew
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus