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From: dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman)
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Subject: Re: Unable to unzip files from CICA???
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Date: 6 Mar 91 18:42:00 GMT
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.   Judging from the number of times the topic has come up lately, this
particular "gotcha" must be claiming about one victim per week (I was
one of them), and maybe the FTP sites could consider sending out a
reminder message to everyone doing an anonymous login (sort of like
putting up a "dangerous intersection" sign at a bad corner).

    There are basically two things to do:
  1) at the  ftp>  prompt, before getting a file, give the command
                 binary
     to be sure the ftp processor knows that's what you want.
  2) when downloading from the Unix box to the PC, before putting the
     Unix Kermit into server mode, give it the command 
           set file type binary
     or it'll convert CR codes to LF-CR's.

Some sanity checks:
  1) Compare the file size in bytes as reported by the ftp "get" command
     with the size in your Unix directory - should be the same. For good
     measure, do a "ls" at the  ftp>  prompt first, to get the size of
     the actual file at the ftp site.
  2) Compare the above file size with the size in the local PC directory -
     should also be the same, possibly different by 1 byte (I'm not sure
     where this happens, but sometimes it seems to be rounded up or down
     to an even number).

If all else fails, you can uuencode the file on your Unix box, then
uudecode it on the PC.

    If anyone has any comments, additions, etc. (no flames, please), I'd
be thankful for further enlightenment on the topic.

dhf@linus.mitre.org