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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Binary file transfers
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Date: 8 Dec 89 01:55:57 GMT
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In article <5714@cps3xx.UUCP>,
gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes:
>Is anyone out there familiar with the kermit program for pc's?  In
>particular, at work we have kermit v. 2.29 for communications with
>other hosts through a direct connection.  I would like to do binary
>file transfers, however, I can't find anything in the kermit.doc file
>that indicates how to do this.  Is it possible?  Is the only way to
>do this to convert the binary file to ASCII, such as with uuencode?

The most recent version, as far as I know, is 2.32/A (do not use
2.32 as it has a bug). I use it all the time to up and download
ASCII and binary files to/from a VAX. There is no need to do
anything special, at least on the system I use. The standard
send/receive or get commands work just as well with binary as with
ASCII files.

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu