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From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter <pechter>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEEDED: Kermit with FIXED FILE TYPE
Summary: kermit between Vax and PC
Message-ID: <14@ocpt.ccur.com>
Date: 11 Nov 89 13:38:07 GMT
References: <150@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
Organization: CONCURRENT COMPUTER CORP. OCEANPORT NJ
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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.
> 
> Using KERMIT in binary mode does not accomplish this task and according to
> the Kermit-32 documentation, the proper way to do this is to send the file
> using KERMIT in binary mode and to receive the file using KERMIT in FIXED
> mode.

Try setting fixed on the Vaxes -- that should keep the Files-11
attributes...  The PC's should just be normal old pc-kermit binary mode.


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