[Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 08 May 2009, Tim Fadden wrote:
>I think you are referring to using command line ftp.  I have seen this.
>What I discovered is that the dos ftp defaulted to ascii mode, and the
>nix's defaulted to binary (or visa-versa its been a while!) and they
>didn't automatically talk to each other of figure out what the file
>really was.  So....  to make sure you didn't get corrupted files, all
>that needed to be done is specify binary or ascii before you started the
>up/download, and all was fine.  This may still be the case.
>
>Tim
>
gah, choke, wheeze.  You are making me shuffle around in 15-20 year old 
memories and the dust is overwhelming, but they do seem to match, that I had 
to issue the binary command before doing the download if I wanted a good dl.

>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 08 May 2009, Brian Blake wrote:
>>> Bill,
>>>
>>> My guess is Gene was talking about Bill Gates, not you.
>>
>> Affirmative.
>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 6:41:51 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
>>>
>>> Please don't presume to  know what Bill considers, because Bill doesn't
>>> even know what you mean by "an anti-piracy thing." I've heard compliments
>>> and I've heard complaints about my server. The main complaint is speed,
>>> which I can do nothing about. The quality of the downloads seems to be
>>> consistently acceptable, according to those who comment. I agree the
>>> speed sux, but there is nothing I can do about that. And if you have
>>> downloaded from me and gotten a corrupted download, then I suggest you
>>> don't download from me. Others will.
>>>
>>> Have a nice day.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>>>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:51 PM
>>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, windows has been known to do the corrupted download bit quite
>>>> often. Bill considers that an anti-piracy thing I guess, cuz it was true
>>>
>>> even
>>>
>>>> back in dos days.
>>>
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