Path: utzoo!censor!becker!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <2584431E.3787@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 12 Dec 89 00:15:24 GMT References: <4446@ur-cc.UUCP> <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Distribution: usa Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 29 In article <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes: $Please remember that SIMTEL is a 36 bit machine. In order to receive $binary files correctly from SIMTEL you must set TENNEX mode in FTP. Somewhere between our ftp program and Simtel20, there's a check done to ensure that I'm in tenex mode, and it reports an error if I'm not. $ [...] Also, when $you go from your unix machine to DOS you need to use some sort of binary $transfer such as kermit in binary mode ... I've had problems getting files downloaded from FTP to unarc on my DOS machine. I grab them in tenex mode, and download them with Procomm Plus's kermit server in binary mode, but almost always I end up with a CRC error somewhere in the archive. However, if I unarc them on this unix box, they work fine. Very strange. But it's a pain in the butt to have to download everything separately. Also, between the kermit server on this Sun and Procomm's kermit server, any transfer totalling over 160-180k (not necessarily all in one file) is doomed to a painful death. Due to these two problems, I've basically given up on getting stuff from Simtel20 (and besides which, my hard disk is filling up :-) -- Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n"; **************************************************************************** If it's true that love is only a game//Well, then I can play pretend