Re: ftp at cco.caltech, HFS problems SOLVED

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee) writes:

>1) cco.caltech.edu: it turns out that caltech (or maybe jhunix) has stopped
>the autodetection of transfer modes (or something like that), because when I
>noticed just this evening (thanks to some letters) that I didn't see a
>default Binary transfer mode displayed when i logged into caltech. after
>setting it manually, the transfers worked fine.

If this was with FTP, the default transfer mode should _always_ be ASCII.
When you change it, the new transfer mode is communicated to the other end
automatically (this doesn't happen with Kermit, which is really annoying).
I have never seen an FTP server that defaulted the transfer mode to binary.
Perhaps your local FTP program has changed?

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu