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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: Re: Problems with Kermit/MacPaint
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Date: 4 Jun 90 01:38:49 GMT
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kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:

>It seems this isn't the case. All the MacPaint pictures I have on
>my disks are of type TXT, which I think is rather standard. The first
>thing I tried was to upload them with Kermit, telling both my computer
>that it was file type text and the remote computer the same. Well,
>after trying to download it in the same manner, it worked and I got
>a file on my disk, but there was no picture, just a bunch of ugly lines.

The TXT filetype is misleading. Apple File Exchange is really stupid sometimes
and marks a file as TXT when it should be BIN.

You will have to upload the files with binary on both ends or the data will get
corrupted somewhere along the way. You may have to change the Prodos filetype
to get this to work.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu