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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Ascii or Binary? Post 302281845 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 29th of January 2009 02:51:24 PM
Old 01-29-2009
If you ftp UNIX->UNIX it is not a problem. Going from Windows to unix is.

Unix filesystems have no concept of a "binary" file, windows filesystems do. Windows thinks carriage control files are "TEXT"
It ends a text file with ascii 26. Binary files in windows are supposed not to have carriage control, so all characters are valid ascii 0 - 255.

The standard C I/O library considers ASCII 0 as end of string, except when doing fread or fwrite calls (read & write in UNIX)

If you are ftp-ing media files and compiled Oracle forms, then use BIN.

Do you get spurious "^M" characters in the file on the UNIX side when sent from windows? Do you have corrupted compiled Oracle forms?
 

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TFTP(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   TFTP(1)

NAME
tftp -- trivial file transfer program SYNOPSIS
tftp [-e] [host] [port] DESCRIPTION
The tftp utility is the user interface to the Internet TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol), which allows users to transfer files to and from a remote machine. The remote host (and optional port) may be specified on the command line, in which case tftp uses host (and port) as the default for future transfers (see the connect command below). The optional -e argument sets a binary transfer mode as well as setting the extended options as if tout, tsize, and blksize 65464, had been given. COMMANDS
Once tftp is running, it issues the prompt 'tftp>' and recognizes the following commands: ? command-name ... Print help information. ascii Shorthand for mode ascii. binary Shorthand for mode binary. blksize blk-size Set the tftp blksize option to blk-size octets (8-bit bytes). Since the number of blocks in a tftp get or put is 65535, the default block size of 512 bytes only allows a maximum of just under 32 megabytes to be transferred. The value given for blk-size must be between 8 and 65464, inclusive. Note that many servers will not respect this option. connect host-name [port] Set the host (and optionally port) for transfers. Note that the TFTP protocol, unlike the FTP protocol, does not maintain connec- tions between transfers; thus, the connect command does not actually create a connection, but merely remembers what host is to be used for transfers. You do not have to use the connect command; the remote host can be specified as part of the get or put com- mands. get filename get remotename localname get file1 file2 ... fileN Get one or more files from the remote host. When using the host argument, the host will be used as default host for future trans- fers. If localname is specified, the file is stored locally as localname, otherwise the original filename is used. Note that it is not possible to download two files at a time, only one, three, or more than three files, at a time. To specify an IPv6 numeric address for a host, wrap it using square brackets like ``[3ffe:2900:e00c:ffee::1234]:file'' to disam- biguate the colons used in the IPv6 address from the colon separating the host and the filename. mode transfer-mode Set the mode for transfers; transfer-mode may be one of ascii or binary. The default is ascii. put file put localfile remotefile put file1 file2 ... fileN remote-directory Put a file or set of files to the specified remote file or directory. The destination can be in one of two forms: a filename on the remote host, if the host has already been specified, or a string of the form hosts:filename to specify both a host and filename at the same time. If the latter form is used, the hostname specified becomes the default for future transfers. When remotename is specified, the file is stored remotely as remotename, otherwise the original filename is used. If the remote-directory argument is used, the remote host is assumed to be a UNIX machine. To specify an IPv6 numeric address for a host, see the example under the get command. quit Exit tftp. An end of file also exits. rexmt retransmission-timeout Set the per-packet retransmission timeout, in seconds. status Show current status. timeout total-transmission-timeout Set the total transmission timeout, in seconds. tout Toggle the tftp "timeout" option. If enabled, the client will pass its retransmission-timeout to the server. Note that many servers will not respect this option. trace Toggle packet tracing. tsize Toggle the tftp "tsize" option. If enabled, the client will pass and request the filesize of a file at the beginning of a file transfer. Note that many servers will not respect this option. verbose Toggle verbose mode. HISTORY
The tftp command appeared in 4.3BSD. IPv6 support was implemented by WIDE/KAME project in 1999. TFTP options were implemented by Wasabi Systems, Inc., in 2003, and first appeared in NetBSD 2.0. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Because there is no user-login or validation within the TFTP protocol, the remote site will probably have some sort of file-access restric- tions in place. The exact methods are specific to each site and therefore difficult to document here. Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC1783). BSD
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