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From: NELSON%VWSCYG@vmsd.oac.uci.edu (Matthew A. Nelson)
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Subject: RE: Help on file transfer
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Date: 9 Jan 91 15:07:00 GMT
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>
>> Can someone please help me?  I am trying to doenload a program from
>> Compuserve to my HP48SX.  
>
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>
>> Compuserve to my PC and Kermit from my PC to my calculator.  The file is
>> in binary form and when I transfer it to my calculator, it is stored
>> as a string which looks like this: "HPHP48-B....."
>
>You forgot to set your calculator to "binary" mode.  (Even if you think you 
>did, you really didn't! :-) )  The clue is your statement that the program
>appears as a string beginning with "HPHP48-B.....".  This is the header for
>binary HP-48 files stored outside the 48.  ASCII files start with a header 
>similar to "$$HP: T(3)A(R)F(.);"

  I get tired of seeing "you dont know what youre talking about; you have
NOT set your calculator to binary mode, regardless of what you SAY you did"
responses to these questions.  Why?  Well, I had the same problems.  I
FTP'd a binary file to my VAXstation in BINARY mode, then kermitted the file
to my 48 in BINARY mode and still got the "HPHP48-x...." business.  Please
don't try to tell me that I didn't.  The problem, for me, was that when
using VAX/VMS, you have to use space parity (7-bit mode) since kermit-32
has a bug in it.  When I moved over to a DECstation and c-kermit, the
"HPHP48x..." stuff went away.
  You might be saying, "well, if you use 7-bit mode OF COURSE you will just
get an ascii file, since you can't send full bytes" (or something).  Well,
how does one explain the fact that I was doing frequent archives/restores
SUCCESFULLY using the VAX and 48 in space-parity mode?  If I upload using
space parity, I can download it, but if I try to download someone elses
file (presumably done with 8-bit trasf. mode), I get trash.

just my .02.   -matt

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>Regards
>Ray Depew
>HP ICBD -- IC's by Bill and Dave   
>rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com
>Disclaimer:  I don't make calculators, I just use them, same as you.