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From: mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Problems unzipping files after KERMIT
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Date: 2 Mar 91 09:50:24 GMT
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daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman) writes:

>There seems to be a number of people having this problem. So here's my solution:

>uuencode the file before downloading it, then download the uuencoded
>version.  When the file is on you pc disk use the PC version of
>uudecode (foudn in the start up kit in comp.binaries.ibm.pc) to decode
>the file back.  UUencodeing makes the file into a pure text file,
>which I can usually download with no problems.

	I have a better solution. Try setting the default download and upload
parameters on both systems to BINARY.  For instance, Procomm and many other
tcom packages allow you to do this.  I used to have this same problem, until
I read the manual.

Craig (mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu)