Date   : Thu, 28 Jul 1983 01:48:00 EDT
From   : Gail Zacharias <GZ@mit-mc>
Subject: zcpr2 and unsqueezing

If you are getting all your bits and bytes shifted around, you are using
the wrong mode in ftp!  In addition to specifying image mode, you should
also specify "8-bit bytes".  ITS will then take care of extracting the
bytes from PDP-10 words in the correct way.  I gather different unix ftp
programs have different commands, but I'm told at least one of them does it
this way:

       ftp mit-mc
       type i
       quote
       type "l 8"

You will still need to strip the 4 header bytes (which I'm told you can do
with a general-purpose utility called 'dd'), but you certainly shouldn't
have to shift anything around!