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From: grimesg@annapurna (George Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEEDED: Kermit with FIXED FILE TYPE
Message-ID: <1989Nov7.190025.2252@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 7 Nov 89 19:00:25 GMT
References: <150@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: grimesg@annapurna.UUCP (George Grimes)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <150@mscf.med.upenn.edu> ross@mscf.med.upenn.edu writes:
>I want to download .exe files from a VAX computer to my PC.  I then want to
>upload these to another VAX and then be able to run the programs.
>
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>
>I'd like to give this a try but I don't have any communications software for
>my PC that supports KERMIT FIXED FILE TYPE.
>
>Does anybody know of any software that has this feature? 

You only need to set file type to fixed on the VAX end.  For the PC set 
file type to binary.  Do this for both directions and everything should
work(I've done it many times).

George



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