On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, P D Johnson wrote:

> I have just downloaded the x11base.* set. I now want to transfer them to
> 1.44Mb DOS discs to take home with me. The problem is the files are about
> 4k > 1,457,664 bytes in size which is what I can fit on a disc and what is

  A quick look at the FTP site shows...

-rw-r--r--    1 ftpadm   ftp      1457663 Oct 28 21:59 x11base.00
......

  You did download them as binary didn't you?  (bin command in ftp)

Ale.