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From: ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Problems getting files from Simtel20
Summary: it's not "type tenex" but just "tenex"
Message-ID: <2106@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:47:59 GMT
References: <389@cs.columbia.edu>
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Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <389@cs.columbia.edu>, benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly) writes:
> I am having problems getting files from the SIMTEL archives.  I am on a 
> Unix machine (SunOS, I beleive).  After connecting to SIMTEL, I enter
> "type tenex", and begin to transfer the files I want.  When, however, I down-
> load them to my PC & try to un-arc them, it tells me that every file fails
> the CRC check, and all I get is garbage.
  I believe the command is just 'TENEX' not 'TYPE TENEX'. After you issue the
command, you should see a reply of something like 'file type set to I'.

						Pete
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