Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: using tip Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 17:40:14 GMT References: <1991Mar3.035806.28203@leland.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: kjell@portia.Stanford.EDU's message of Sun, 3 Mar 91 03:58:06 GMTLines: 32 In article <1991Mar3.035806.28203@leland.Stanford.EDU> kjell@portia.Stanford.EDU (Kjell Saeten) writes: I am just wondering if it is possible to use tip to transfer binary-files ? I need kermit, but I have some problems downloading it with tip. One method that is simple to use for this type of bootstrapping is to compress the remote executable, uuencode it, then cat(1) it. On the local side, Select All, and copy/paste it into Edit, save it, etc, etc. There's supposed to be a command called paste(1) that will allow you to paste (and then redirect to a file) from the command-line, but that command's apparently broken. copy(1) still works, though :-). Otherwise, you could run script(1) before tip, and then it will automagically capture your file. Problem there is that it will probably capture alot of other stuff, too. One gotcha - there is apparently a bug somewhere in Stuart which causes it to get confused about the first couple lines of large copies. Presumably, it's in Terminal, too, though I really can't be sure - it's hard to get it to happen, and thus hard to find, so I don't know when I introduced it into Stuart. Anyhow, the moral is to check out the first couple lines for such a problem, and possibly take a quick glance through the file if you get errors with the resulting file (rather than wait another 15 minutes to download that huge file again :-). Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Bannana, banna."