Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!udel!brahms.udel.edu!kmorrill From: kmorrill@brahms.udel.edu (Ken Morrill) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: VRAM386 in SIMTEL20 corrupted?? Summary: Why uuencode file before bringing to PC? Keywords: simtel20 vram386.zip sysutl Message-ID: <19705@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 16 Mar 91 12:35:17 GMT References: <5412@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 20 In article , wong@cs.UAlberta.CA (Brian Wong) writes: > 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 What puzzles me about your general procedure (which I understand almost always _works_) is why you take the time to turn zipped files that you want zipped anyway into text files at all before downloading to your pc. Am I missing something? Is there some advantage to doing what Brian describes above as his normal procedure for bringing files to his pc? -- ============================================================== Kenneth J. Morrill (302) 737-5528 ==============================================================