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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: dos --> vax transfer of .B4 files
Message-ID: <336@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 4 Sep 89 13:49:37 GMT
References: <8908311323.AA03044@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa>
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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From article <8908311323.AA03044@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa>, by CARTER@v1.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk:
>  VAX so that i can use it with my vax hosted transputer system. My
>  attempts so far to kermit this file result in a file with the 
>  wrong format which fails to boot. Has anyone encountered this
>  problem? Does anyone know of a solution?

Assumung you are using KERMIT in binary mode and it doesnt work - how about
uuencoding the file first, sending the ASCII and then uudecoding it at the
far end. I have used these programs to transfer other binaries via very
tortuous routes indeed and they still work at the far end.

                           -Pete.
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