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From: a600@mindlink.UUCP (Dave McClean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FTP Download Problem
Message-ID: <474@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 15:43:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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As a new user of FTP, I have downloaded about 10 files from Sumex. In each case
they have arrived at my computer, in Binhexed format, with several blank lines
and/or doubled lines of Ascii characters. I have used a text editor to delete
the blank lines, and move the second half of the doubled lines down one line.
(I assume that's where they're supposed to go). I also edited out all the '>'
marks which FTP puts at the beginning of each line.  Then, when I try to
convert the file using Binhex4.0, I always get an error message.
It seems to be a different error message each time. I'm obviously doing
something wrong.  Any advice would be appreciated. I haven't had any
difficulties converting files from comp.binaries.
mac.