[Info-vax] Looking for NOTES (or a solution to a problem with it)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-10 21.02, Mark Benson wrote:
> On Nov 10, 7:37 pm, Johnny Billquist<b... at softjar.se>  wrote:
>
>> Yes. But I hope noone is stupid enough to try and transfer a backup
>> image saveset in text mode anyway.
>
> *Looks innocent and whistles whilst slowly walking away*

No offense intended. :-)

> I'm but a young pup, I'm not used to using command-line FTP clients.
> I've never
> had to explicitly set a binary transfer mode in my life, it usually
> worked automagically.
>
> First time for everything I suppose :D

Yes, people unknowingly make that mistake a lot of times. But they 
usually understand the problem once it has been pointed out, and at that 
point I would hope they don't make it again. :-)

>> Right. :-)
>>
>> But if you transfer in binary mode, the actual attributes in this case
>> should make it a no-op.
>
> If it makes any odds, the binary file I pulled down from digiater.nl
> via FTP was
> in 512byte block size. I had to repair that to return it to the proper
> block size using
> the script I linked to but once I did that it worked a charm :)

Right. The block size is another issue/problem.

	Johnny