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From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Servers
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Date: 27 Dec 90 04:13:17 GMT
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In article <1990Dec26.172922.17717@ericsson.se>, Tommy Petersson writes:

> In article <1033.27783F09@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
> >I'm having some difficulty connecting to ux1.cso.uiuc.edu where the
> >Fish disks are supposedly located.  It says my site is not registered,
> >and to contact my administrator.  Unfortunately, I doubt that Amiga
> >software is a big priority at my university :-( so is there a way I
> >can get around this, or is there somewhere else I can obtain the
> >fish disks?
>
> I have another ftp problem, maybe it could be answered at the same time? :-)
>
> Having no access to ftp, I use bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu to do the ftp for
> me, from ux1 and abcdf20, specifying BINARY. I get the file UUencoded by
> email and UUdecode it (I have tried both on a SparcStation and on my Amiga).
> The files are transferred from Sparc to MS-DOS diskettes using mtools, which
> has binary transfer as default. From MS-DOS to Amiga I use DOS-2-DOS, which
> also has binary transfer as default.
>
> All files are corrupted, but not totally screwed up. If I have UUdecoded
> a Zoo archive and does zoo -l archive, it lists 2 or 3 files from the
> archive before complaining about corrupt file.
>
> I have gotten one program (HamSharp, thanks!) by 'normal email' (not from
> the BITFTP server). I UUdecoded it on the Sun4 and moved it to my Amiga.
> It ran without any problems.
>
> Anyone with a solution? It seems like the ftp pucc does gives corrupted
> files, but if it were so, surely many other people would have run into
> it and complained?
>

I suspect your file transfer techniques have a flaw, or you aren't
"re-assembling" the files correctly.

First, are you sure that the file from BITFTP is corrupted?

Can you transfer a known good binary file (such as a zoo file)from your Sparc
 to the Amiga, and have it arrive intact?

When you uudecode the files from BITFTP, do they appear "whole" on the
Sparc (does Zoo work ok on it on the Sparc)?

The only problems I had with files from BITFTP was when I was using
an editor to put the segments together, and the editor replaced
blanks with tabs!


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