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From: GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FTP Servers
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Date: 28 Dec 90 14:51:19 GMT
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>"etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se"  "Tommy Petersson" write:

>>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?
>Tommy Petersson
>etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se

  1) To David Plummer : Try BITFTP ... :-)
  2) To Tommy Petersson:

     This is a quote from BITFTP helpfile. Sorry if it is too obvious, but you
didn't tell you have tried it...

     "If BITFTP sends you a file you a uuencoded file that you cannot uudecode,
the fist thing to do is to translate all occurences of 0x7E in the file to 0x5E
and then try uudecoding again. (some gateways are changing 5Es to 7Es when
files pass through them.)"

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