Re: ange-ftp using binary mode

[Ken Goldman]

On 2/11/2012 2:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Ken Goldman<kgold@watson.ibm.com>
> > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:55:49 -0500
> >
> > I have to use ange-ftp because the server I'm connecting to doesn't run
> > ssh.  When I transfer, it uses binary, which does not work.  The server
> > is a mainframe and likely uses ebcdic.
>
> Are you using ange-ftp via "C-x C-f"?  If so, tell Emacs to decode the
> file, as in "C-x RET c ebcdic-us RET C-x C-f whatever RET".
>
> If you use some other command, again prefix that command with
> universal-coding-system-argument ("C-x RET c") to tell it to use
> EBCDIC, or whatever is right for those files.
>
> IOW, just imagine the file was on your local disk, and do the same.
> You cannot tell disk I/O to "use ascii", can you?

I tried this and it is somewhat better.  I can see the text but all the 
newline appears as \205, [ as \255 and ] as \275.

I think I simply want to tell ange-ftp to use ascii, not binary, but 
nothing I tried works.