Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ericom!eos.ericsson.se!etxtomp From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: FTP Servers Message-ID: <1990Dec27.141152.8028@ericsson.se> Date: 27 Dec 90 14:11:52 GMT References: <1033.27783F09@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <1990Dec26.172922.17717@ericsson.se> <186ce17d.ARN253b@starsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@ericsson.se Reply-To: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB Lines: 99 In article <186ce17d.ARN253b@starsoft.UUCP> david@starsoft.UUCP writes: >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. I have one small program, UUCode.zoo. It's only in one mail file, and I just remove lines above and including the ----cut---- line. (it gives the same result even if I don't edit the file. So, re-assembling problems are out. (I'm not angry, I asked for help and suggestions...). As for the transfer techniques, see below. > >First, are you sure that the file from BITFTP is corrupted? Not really, and I have never said so. But it seemed like the only thing I could come up with, that I hadn't already tested. > >Can you transfer a known good binary file (such as a zoo file)from your Sparc > to the Amiga, and have it arrive intact? I have transferred the HamSharp program, which I got by 'personal email'. > >When you uudecode the files from BITFTP, do they appear "whole" on the >Sparc (does Zoo work ok on it on the Sparc)? > This machine actually didn't have a compiled zoo program. I found the source code in an archive and compiled (today). The same result: Archive UUCODE.ZOO: Length CF Size Now Date Time -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 2675 32% 1820 22 Aug 87 15:38:44 3964 UUEncode/POSTER 385 22% 301 22 Aug 87 15:38:32 5e4c UUEncode/README.fnf* Zoo: FATAL: Archive UUCODE.ZOO: Directory entry in archive is invalid. -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 3060 31% 2121 2 files ------------ *: directory entry may be corrupted. The irritating part of this is that I'm (almost) sure that UUCode.zoo was a file I didn't get through BITFTP... >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! > That would be a very possible error source, if it wasn't that I get the same result if I don't edit the file at all. Now it looks more like a problem with Sun's mailtool here, but it has worked perfectly once (on HamSharp)... > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) > > Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,lobster}!starsoft!david >Starbound Software Group | > Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic Tommy Petersson etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se