[Coco] Way Off Topic, was Re: Needed Rainbow Magazines

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

I must have had my head turned when Entwhistle's obit came out.  Well, he made it to "near old".  Half a dozen more years to go for me (and if I manage three, it'll be a record for anybody carrying my Y-chromosome in recorded history -- I've made it past the age where black lung took out most, and I apparently have a stronger liver than the few others -- dad's liver wore out when he was younger than I am, but the San Diego VA hospital used him as a guinea pig for new techniques and kept him going for another half decade [if I sound callous, I am -- we never got along] while at the same time the East Orange NJ VA hospital was in their third decade of trying to kill my future father-in-law [took them slightly over forty years to kill that magnificent bastard, he lived almost exactly as long as Robert Heinlein]).
-- 
Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

----- "Tom Seagrove" <tjseagrove at writeme.com> wrote:

> From: "Tom Seagrove" <tjseagrove at writeme.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 3:22:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
>
> Don't forget John Entwhistle who is no longer here.  He died 27 June
> 2002.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of wdg3rd at comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:54 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
> 
> > From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 11:51:49 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Needed Rainbow Magazines
> >
> > 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.
> 
> For me, it's been an automatic thing for a couple of decades -- easier
> to
> clean up a text file if the wrong choice was made than a binary.  Most
> linux
> servers (and clients) default to binary.  But I still explicitly set
> it
> anyway, out of habit.
> 
> Quit complaining about your age.  You're still here.  While I'm a
> decade and
> some behind you, I've reached the point where if I wake up in the
> morning
> and nothing hurts, I must have died in my sleep.  (Forty-odd years
> ago, the
> Who had a song that had the line "hope I die before I get old" -- one
> member
> of the band [Keith Moon] did so, the rest are still healthy though
> Pete
> Townsend is now as deaf as Beethoven).