HP ARPA File Transfer Protocol User's Guide (36957-90159)

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Using FTP
Setting or Changing Transfer Types
Setting or Changing Transfer Types
FTP supports three transfer types, binary, ASCII, and BYTESTREAM. When you first
enter FTP, the transfer type defaults to ASCII. For example, text files are type ASCII and
are transferred as ASCII files.
To find out what the transfer type is for your current session, enter the TYPE command
without parameters. For example, if ASCII is the current transfer type, the following
displays:
ftp> TYPE
Using ASCII mode to transfer file (FTPINFO 25).
Binary
To change the file transfer type to binary, enter the command BINARY at the ftp> prompt
as follows:
ftp> BINARY
200 Type set to l.
You can also use the TYPE transfertype command to change the file transfer type. To set
the transfer type to binary, you can enter:
ftp> TYPE BINARY
200 Type set to l.
ASCII
To change the file transfer type to ASCII, enter the command ASCII at the ftp> prompt:
ftp> ASCII
200 Type set to A.
You can also use the TYPE [transfertype] command to change the file transfer type. To
set the transfer type to ASCII, you can enter:
ftp> TYPE ASCII
200 Type set to A.
BYTESTREAM
To change the file transfer type to BYTESTREAM, enter the command BYTESTREAM or
BYTE at the ftp> prompt:
ftp> BYTESTREAM
200 Type set to L (byte size 8).
You can also use the TYPE [transfertype] command to change the file transfer type. To
set the transfer type to BYTESTREAM, you can enter:
ftp> TYPE BYTESTREAM
200 Type set to L (byte size 8).