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Setting or Changing Transfer Types

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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).



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