Re: unarchive caltech apple2 files

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Daniel Zimmerman wrote:

> >In addition, whereas ground will display an error message when 
> >you try to download a binary file as text, caltech will not do so. 
> 
> This is not true. In fact, the server _will_ display a warning which says
> "File may need BINARY mode" whenever you try to download a binary file in
> ASCII mode. It doesn't abort the transfer, but it does warn you. :)
> 
Sorry. Maybe it was different before.  I remember when I used ground and 
caltech with graphical ftper's on a Macintosh, only ground would give me 
an error message.  This may have been before the current location of 
caltech, however.

Toby Reiter