Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dfs From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) Subject: Re: Problem retrieving archive programs via FTP Message-ID: Keywords: archive FTP Kermit Sender: news@ccs.carleton.ca (news) Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada References: <1991Feb13.042158.25755@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1991Feb13.152910.16132@linus.mitre.org> Distribution: usa Date: 14 Feb 91 15:03:30 GMT In <1991Feb13.152910.16132@linus.mitre.org> dhf@linus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes: >I finally compared hex dumps on the PC and on my >UNIX box, and found that the Kermit-to-Kermit transfer was introducing extra >characters - it looked like every 0Ah was being changed to 0Dh 0Ah, i.e., >every CR was being changed to LF-CR even though the transfer mode was >supposedly BINARY! You probably did this but... You have to 'set file type binary' on the Un*x kermit (the sender.) Changing this parameter on the PC version (receiver) has no effect. -- David F. Skoll