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	Appendix C: Using FTP 119
<bin/txt>	is the transfer type, txt for ASCII or bin for BINARY
<record length>	the logical record length is a number from 1 to 32767

This file format is shown in table 31.

Table 31 Examples of filenames with record length in their extension

File type	Filename before	Format	DMS filename
	transfer to the		after transfer to
	DMS		the DMS
XPM software	file1.bin1024	binary, lrecl 1024	FILE1
XPM software	file1e.txt54	ascii, lrecl 54	FILE1
MS software	file1.bin138	binary, lrecl 138	FILE1
Series III	file1.bin1020	binary, lrecl 1020	FILE1
MS Firmware	file1.bin138	binary, lrecl 138	FILE1
LCM	file1.bin55	binary, lrecl 55	FILE1
OM	file1.bin2048	binary, lrecl 2048	FILE1
DCH	file1.bin1024	binary, lrecl 1024	FILE1

If the filename extension is not as described in table 31, the system attempts to identify the extension with a common set of filename extensions. Common filename extensions recognized by the FTP application are shown in table 32.

Table 32 Examples of filenames without record length in their extension

File type	Extension	Filename	Format	DMS filename
		before transfer		after transfer
		to the DMS		to the DMS
Patches	.patch	file1.patch	binary, lrecl 128	FILE1$PATCH
	.ptchm68p	file1.ptchm68p
	.ptchm88p	file1.ptchm88p
	.ptchisnp	file1.ptchisnp
CM	.loadbr2	file1.loadbr2	binary, lrecl 256	FILE1$LD
modules	.load68k	file1.load68k
	.loadppc	file1.loadppc
XREF	.xref	file1.xref	ascii, lrecl80	FILE1

Before the file transfer takes place, set file type to BINARY or ASCII. For example, use the BINARY command to change the file type to binary for filenames in the following format:

filename.patch

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