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From: AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET
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Subject: Proterm (question of portability)
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Date: 11 Dec 90 20:43:18 GMT
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Proterm... Well, I finally got a neat little PATCH to fix mine.  Before that
I was always telling everybody what an incredibly useless pile of junk it
was.  It seemed to have this nasty habit of crashing or hanging every time
(almost) I'd try to upload or download anything.  A friend gave me a patch,
and it's been working fine ever since.

What WOULD be nice would be if you could set some options for the Kermit
transfers.  On this system here, we're using these ancient NIU's, and they
only handle 7 bits, so we have to call in on 7E1, which makes most types
of transfers impossible (like x-modem, for example).

Also, in reguards to getting FTP stuff to work, believe me, I've had my
share of problems -- just ask any of the people I harrassed for answers.
The first problem I had was that I wasn't setting BINARY (or Image) mode
of transfers.  This causes lots of problems.  Remember, even if it has a
".bsc" or ".bsq" on the end, make sure you notice that capital ".Z" after
it -- that means it's compressed, and if you don't transfer compressed
things binary, you get MAJOR problems.  I noticed that once when I
uncompressed a file, and came back later to find it had used 70 Megs! --
This was a 30k file to begin with.

Oh, the other problem was that Proterm always died.  I don't have the patch
for it anymore, just the patched program.

                                                      - Andrew.
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