Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: NELSON%VWSCYG@vmsd.oac.uci.edu (Matthew A. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: binary downloads; HELP Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 90 16:46:00 GMT Lines: 26 To: handhelds@gac.edu Return-path: To: handhelds@gac.edu X-VMS-To: HANDHELDS hello all, i have been having trouble with binary downloads to my 48sx. i have had no luck in downloading the following files: all of the pc-link libraries written by hp, and the recently posted MOVE game. when i download them and try to execute them, i get the well known "HPHP48-xBLAHBLAH..." (or something like that; sorry if i dont have the thing memorized, but you all know what i am talking about) sitting on level one. now before everybody and their brother says to "set the file type to binary, idiot", let me tell you what my configuration is... 48: IR/wire: wire ASCII/binary: bianry baud: 9600 parity: spc 4 checksum type: 1 translate code:3 host: matched as well as possible to the above. could the problem lie in the fact that i have to use 7-bit (space parity) mode? the host is a VAX/VMS system, and the kermit-32 available will not work in 8-bit mode (due to some little bug, don't remember exactly what it is). the weird thing is that all of the archive/restore operations that i do work like a charm. whats the deal? send responses to nelson@psroot.ps.uci.edu, and i will summarize to the net. thanx.