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From: maye_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Robert Mayer)
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Subject: a question of portability
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Date: 2 Dec 90 00:05:15 GMT
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I've never seen this discussed before, but know in the back of my mind that
somewhere it has appeared before. I will therefore ask anyway.

There are a plethora of files on such archives like brown.brown.edu and others
that are/seem to be in standard shrinkit format...

This in itself would not be a problem...but I have no way to get to them
without
using FTP through my Unix account on the university system. I attempted to
retrieve them with streaming mode to my unix account and send them streaming
mode via Kermit server to my //gs... didn't work. I then tried it using binary
mode for both transactions...still didn't work. Both times I wind up with a
file
on my //gs that is a shrinkit archive, and both times shrinkit tells me that
the file is corrupted. I ran through this process with multiple files and can
only assume that it is not a fault with the files but the means of transport.
I have had no problems with files that are either Binsciied or Executioned
from these or other sites.

So here's the request: Will someone in the know PLEASE explain how I'm to get
a Shrinkit/NuFX archive from an FTP site through a Unix account to my GS
without it becoming corrupted.

Rob Mayer
maye_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu