On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Nigel Reed wrote:
> > Transfer it in ascii mode, not binary.
>
> Why? If binary mode doesn't work, something's broken. ASCII mode is for
> transferring ASCII files--a file full of 0s isn't what I'd consider
> ASCII :) (although I suppose you could say it's a file full of ASCII
> NULs :)
>
> In any case, I don't have a NetBSD 1.5/i386 machine, or a Windows ME
> machine to test with, but I did try it between NetBSD-current/alpha and
> Windows NT 4.0, and everything worked as expected with binary mode.

Yes - I just had the chance to try it from an NT machine, and I couldn't
reproduce it from there.

It seems unlikely that ftp under Windows Me is broken, tho.  I guess
anything's possible in Bill's world ;-)

Thankfully, it seems that NT's ftp.exe works okay under Me, so that's my
solution for now.

Thanks!

-Jon