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From: kellsworth@pbs.org (Video Magician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Help with BITFTP
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.230804.10903@pbs.org>
Date: 4 Dec 90 04:08:04 GMT
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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I have an Amiga 2000 at home with access to the net and ftp sources
through a VAX system at work.  Unfortunately, we don't have 
interactive FTP, only BITFTP.

Rather than go into lengthy discussion of all the various methods I
have tried, without success, to transfer and use data on the Amiga, I shall
ask for suggestions and/or help from those with far more experience than
I have.

A quick summary:  I can "GET" a file through BITFTP, it is sent
UUENCODED.  I can download files from the VAX to the Amiga using
XMODEM (among others).  I have UUDECODE on the Amiga, but it tells
me that it cannot create "foobar.lzh" when asked to decode the
downloaded file as received from ABCFD20.LARC.NASA.GOV, for instance.

Thanks for the soon-to-arrive guidance.

Keith Ellsworth
Editor
PBS

AKA: KELLSWORTH@PBS.ORG