RFC 571

TENEX FTP PROBLEM 💅

Okay bestie, the paperwork first 🎀 This is RFC 571, written by Robert T. Braden of UCLA/CCN (NIC #18974) on November 15, 1973. The original doesn't list a category or status, and it doesn't obsolete or update any other RFC.

Tenex FTP users, beware 🚨 The current Tenex implementation can give you wrong results when you send files to a non-Tenex site, and it's giving chaos 😭 Some Tenex programs use an ASCII US (Unit Separator) character as an end-of-line indicator instead of CR LF. The current Tenex FTP user implementation passes those US characters over the Network instead of translating them to CR LF as required by FTP protocol. If the recipient isn't a Tenex, it won't do anything special with the US characters, so the line spacing gets lost 💀 When sending to CCN, the file is treated as one very long logical record and folded into successive 360 records. Not me having to deal with that 🙈

The workaround ✨ Pass the Tenex file through a Tenex program that does the conversion before you send it over the Network. We know TECO removes US's, and there are probably other ways too 🧚 Loading and saving the file with TECO replaces all US's with CR LF sequences, so the spacing comes back. Iconic fix, periodt 💖

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