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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: White Knight and Zmodem
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.234500.2340@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 30 Nov 89 23:45:00 GMT
References: <11143@csli.Stanford.EDU> <5574@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <5574@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> by grw@cartan.math.hawaii.edu (George R. Wilkens):
+---------------
| You need the tenex to download a binary file to a UN*X system, since simtel20
| is a VMS system. Once you get the file, just move it to RZSZ0525.TAR.Z, 
+---------------

Minor nitpick:  VMS doesn't require the "tenex" command.  The command is named
after the OS it supports:  "ten-ex", for TOPS10-extended.  This is one of a
family of operating systems (TOPS-10, Tenex, Tops-20, and Twenex) for the DEC
PDP-10 mainframe.  The reason it's provided is that the PDP-10 has 36-bit
words which don't cleanly split into bytes; ASCII files are stored as 5 7-bit
characters per word + 1 spare bit, while octet-oriented binary files are
stored as 4 8-bit characters per word + 4 spare bits.  The "tenex" command
causes ftp to unpack the files properly; "ascii" would do it wrong, and
"binary" (AKA "image") doesn't unpack bytes at all.

++Brandon
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