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From: UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .bsq revisited. . .
Message-ID: <90306.153049UD169430@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: 2 Nov 90 21:30:48 GMT
References: <9010300537.AA11430@apple.com> <90303.091902SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <8430@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
says:
>
>In article <1990Nov01.202314.24433@hoss.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T.
>H.) writes:
>>No wonder all my Kermit binary dl's were corrupted!  I had several .bsq
>>files sitting around, taking up quota.  Then got sciibin and extracted
>>them, thus reducing the space they were taking up.  Then I find out I
>>can't get them downloaded in binary form.  Are there any patches out for
>>ProTERM to fix this (or is the included text completely off base)?
>
>        I guess I don't understand what you're having a problem with, but
>I sciibin EVERYTHING then download it with ProTERM from my UNIX account
>and it works fine.. I don't understand your problem then I guess.

I think his problem is that ProTerm doesn't handle binary kermit
transfers correctly.  That's why we're forced to use Kermit v3.87
(actually, it's really not such a bad program, and it seems to me it's
faster than ProTERM or Kermit-65 v3.86 but perhaps that has to do with
the way I have things set up.)
>
>        Possible problems that you didn't mention but could be problems:
>
>        1) If you're rlogging in from one place to another, use a "-8" to
>make sure you have an 8 bit connection.. Otherwise things get munged.
>
>        2) If you're getting things from FTP sites, make sure you use
>binary transfer. (type binary at a prompt)
>
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