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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Possible Zmodem bug?
Message-ID: <737@greens.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 15:40:24 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
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In article <1514@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Trevor Paquette writes:

   [text about Zmodem / Zoo file problems deleted. ]

Your problem, is what is termed 'automatic mode detection'.  If you do a:

od -c your.zoo | head

you'll see that zoo archives start, and are signafied by a text header.
This is causing Zmodem to select the '-a' mode.  Use the '-b' (binaries)
flag to override this and the problem should go away.


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