Anybody ever use the tenex mode of ftp?

[Mike Powell "Network Kingpin"]

We got a file from the NIC this evening and it said to use the tenex mode
so we did. The problem is you cannot read it! file says it's data. more
and vi go out to lunch. I looked in the permutated index and could not
find anything.

Any thoughts? Thanks.
-- 
Mike Powell	(need a change of altitude)
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