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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: W A R N I N G  compress & ftp can corrupt hp48 bin files
Keywords: Ouch!
Message-ID: <9006@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 03:07:40 GMT
References: <40142@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <40142@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:
>I've found that compressing files that have been trasnfered from
>hp48's to sun's will corrupt them; trying to trasnfer the uncompressed
>file back to the hp results in nothing more than a string
>"HPHP48-"etc.  This also occurs when transfering a file to the 48 that
>has been trasnfered between computers with image mode ftp.  (As I
>understand it, Inamge mode is used between differing types of systems
>when bin mode is requested.  Bin mode itself is used only between
>identical types of systems (ie., a pair of sun4's, etc.).)

I don't want to flame you, but  I *do* want to cut off this type of
  silliness before a bunch of hp owners who don't know a whole lot about 
  the net get  upset.  

FTP AND COMPRESS AREN'T DOING ANYTHING BAD TO YOUR FILES.  If there is
  a problem with file transfers, mos tlikely the problem is yours: you
  forgot to set file type binary on either the sending kermit or on
  your hp.

Think about it for a minute - if image ftp and compress couldn't deal
  with binary files they wouldn't be in use today.  What makes HP
  binaries any different from IBM binaries in the eyes of a UNIX
  system?  They're both just gibberish binary files.  Calm down a bit
  and try again.

>James H. Cloos, Jr.		Phone:  +1 716 673-1250

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