Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: another stupid kermit question Message-ID: <8910040925.aa11145@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 4 Oct 89 14:17:18 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut Lines: 29 On Tue, 3 Oct 89 18:16:03 GMT you said: > The VAX here at school usually runs on even parity, which is no good USUALLY? I'll bet it ALWAYS does :-) >for downloading apple II files. When i set the kermit on the VAX to do >no parity or space parity, my kermit won't receive it. when i do the >exact same thing, but with even parity, the transfer works (but the files >are useless). Is there something i should be doing differently? How so 'useless?' If they are text files, they're 7-bit files and you should be able to use them (if they're programs, they'll need further processing, as with BinSCII, for instance). It IS possible to transfer binary files under even parity (that's really why Kermit was developed in the first place), -->BUT<-- you have to SET FILE-TYPE Binary at **BOTH ends* of Kermit! Also, if the file came over the net, it's may have passed through an ASCII->EBCDIC->ASCII translation (nearly guaranteed to corrupt a binary file). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)