Re: 20050710: 20050710: error downloadin netCDF distribution from my.unidata (fwd)

>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>Reply-To: Kenneth Simpson <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: 20050710: error downloadin netCDF distribution from my.unidata

Kenneth,

> this is to inform you that on a Solaris machine, the downloads
> from the above URL are corrupted because you're actually using the
> FTP and not setting the binary mode correctly.

I don't think Solaris has anything to do with it.  I just checked that
downloads from the URLs

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z

work fine from Firefox, Mozilla, or Netscape on a Solaris 9 platform.
There has never been an issue with using ASCII mode rather than binary
mode for netCDF downloads using FTP and a browser running on Solaris
(or any other platform I'm aware of).  You only have to set binary
mode when using the default ftp client from the command line (as with
every other platform).

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it's evidently with your client
rather than the ftp.unidata.ucar.edu server.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu