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Re: FTP and save sets

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From: Tony Li
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1987 16:42
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I find the suggestion of a separate option to FTP to add yet-another-feature
to be distasteful, at best.  Binary mode FTP is supposed to be able to deal 
with such things, since it passes data in a transparent manner.  The only 
REAL problem is that FTP cannot handle the different file types that VMS 
supports/requires.  This is a problem with VMS, not with FTP.  Don't fix it by
hacking on FTP.

There are reasonable ways of encoding and decoding the proper FDL onto the 
binary file so that binary mode FTP will work properly.  The need to standardize
should be in finding a de-facto standard encoding, not in enhancements to
an already overburdened networking program.

Cheers,
Tony ;-)
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Subject: Re: FTP and save sets
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