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From: neumann@udel.edu (Brian R. Neumann)
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Subject: Re: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20
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Date: 13 Dec 89 13:23:11 GMT
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In article <2584431E.3787@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
>$you go from your unix machine to DOS you need to use some sort of binary
>$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.
>
>Due to these two problems, I've basically
>given up on getting stuff from Simtel20 (and besides which, my hard disk
>is filling up :-)

I had this trouble and then gave up on simtel for a year.  Then someone told
me a solution to the problem.  On the mainframe,  I invoke kermit by

kermit -i
      ^^^^^ to use binary mode. CRC checks are fine, and the programs run fine.

In the past couple months I've obtained about 30Meg of files... 
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