On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 Nico.Baggus_at_mail.ing.nl wrote:

> cURL v7.3 with SSL for Win32 seems to ignore ascii transfers for download
> from FTP: -B of --user-ascii have the same result, i.e. Image Transfers.
> A log showing this is added to this message.
>
> The remote FTP host is a VMS system. The transfer works with a normal FTP
> client.

This problem seems to have been around a while. I suspect this was a mistake
when I took libcurl to the new v7 design. This is a very simple change, so
for you who _can_ compile a new curl, do this:

diff -u -r1.24 ftp.c
--- ftp.c 2000/09/25 22:15:28 1.24
+++ ftp.c 2000/10/09 11:06:57
@@ -1178,7 +1182,7 @@
     else {
       /* Set type to binary (unless specified ASCII) */
       ftpsendf(data->firstsocket, conn, "TYPE %s",
- (data->bits.ftp_list_only)?"A":"I");
+ (data->bits.ftp_ascii)?"A":"I");
 
       nread = GetLastResponse(data->firstsocket, buf, conn);
       if(nread < 0)

Thanks for reporting!

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/