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From: rcoahk@koel.co.rmit.oz (Alvaro Hui Kau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,aus.mac
Subject: 2 kinds of Macbinary format??
Keywords: macbinary
Message-ID: <4975@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
Date: 10 Jul 90 06:55:25 GMT
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Hi all expert!
I just ran into a unresolved problem of trying
to download files in Macbinary format using 2
different telnet applications, namely :
	ncsa telnet 2.3.2
	MacIP3.03
The problem is as follows :
I use Mcvert on the unix host to convert *.hqx
to *.bin( or *.sit.bin) then I will use ncsa telnet
to download them using macbinary mode. No problem!

Recently, I got hold of MacIP3.03. It is a very
nice appl and it support macbinary format (was
told to!). So I try today to download *.bin from
my unix host, ah!!! It won't do it but give me
a CRC checksum error! So I thought the may be
the file is corrupted. I then try to download
another *.bin file I previously downloaded with
ncsa telnet, guess what, it give me a CRC checksum
error again!! I give up and use ncsa telnet to
download the file concerned, telnet happily
downloaded my file and everything in the *.sit
works!! Why?
So I start MacIP again and try upload some appls
up in Macbinary mode, it works fine. I try downloading
it , and it works fine too but only for those file
I uploaded with MacIP.
So it doesn't seems to be MacIP 's fault.
Then why it doesn't accept *.bin produced by
Mcvert and telnet do???? With the same transfer
mode???	
I was crossed!!! I like MacIP because it was
more mac like and the appl is a lot smaller
(I was a floppy user, space is important to me!!)
				rcoahk@koel.co.rmit.oz.au
				akkh@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au