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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: File transfers/UUPC on 7-bit lines
Summary: Can it be done?
Message-ID: <1990Sep16.020025.22749@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 90 02:00:25 GMT
Sender: c3ar@finite.chi.il.us
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Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Ohio University
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Help!
My mac is connected to our UNIX mainframe via some sort of terminal
concentrator, and none of the communication methods for file transfers
and email that I have used successfully on direct connections work.

(1) Zterm fails (crc errors)
(2) Binary Kermit fails
(3) Macput, macget, macbput, and other forms of xmodem fail
(4) UUPC fails (with the error message "bad header")

My *conjecture* is that the failure is due to some 7-bit connection
somewhere along the way.  Another possible problem are the irritating
^S/^Q Xoff/Xon characters that these lines seem to have.   Is this a good
guess?  Can anyone point me to utilities that *will* work in this environment?

Any suggestions greatfully appreciated. Thanks!  

--Walter



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