FTP Data Errors

[Nefarious]

I'm in an office and I can't access an FTP site through IE (I think there's some firewalling going on) so I'm using M$ command line FTP.

The files send and appear a similar size but when downloaded are corrupt. I have tried from my computer sending then downloading and the files are a slightly different size when they come back, am I missing something obvious here??

 

[Nefarious]

I just downloaded a free FTP client and the files worked fine, anyone know why the M$ command line didn't work?

Did I need to force binary or something??

 

[rpstewart]

Did I need to force binary or something??

Very probably, most GUI clients will automatically use binary mode for anything other than a list of known ASCII file type extensions. Command line FTP however will default to ASCII for everything.