Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!scapa!wong From: wong@cs.UAlberta.CA (Brian Wong) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: VRAM386 in SIMTEL20 corrupted?? Keywords: simtel20 vram386.zip sysutl Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 08:32:47 GMT References: <5412@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 39 w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes: >>I just download pd1:vram386.zip from SIMTEL20. >>I cannot unpack it using pkunzip. >>The file seems to be corrupted. >>I download the file from another site and it has the same problem. >>Can whoever is in charge look into this? >SIMTEL20> unzip -t vram386 . . . >Testing: VRAM386.DOC OK >Testing: HRAM.SYS OK >No problem there. Must be your FTP was in the wrong mode, or you >downloaded with Kermit and forgot to tell your host's Kermit to use >binary mode. >Keith Petersen >Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] This is how I download vram386.zip: 1. ftp it from 26.2.0.74. yes I DID use tenex mode. the second time I tried 128.252.135.4 and I used binary mode. 2. uuencode the file, get a file called vram386.uue 3. use 1k-xmodem program to download the text file to my pc 4. uudecode the file then pkunzip I have download several files before and there is no problem. When I tried to decode vram386.uue, it gave an error message: End of file encountered. enter name of another uue file. I check vram386.uue and there are the 'begin' and 'end' statements and it looks OK. I guessed I incorrectly jump to the conclusion that the original zip file is corrupted. What have I done wrong here? How come the procedure works for many other files but not vram??