Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213e.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: VRAM386 in SIMTEL20 corrupted?? Keywords: simtel20 vram386.zip sysutl Message-ID: <2420@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Date: 16 Mar 91 22:45:37 GMT References: <5412@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Lines: 28 In article wong@cs.UAlberta.CA (Brian Wong) writes: >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 Perhaps the versions or uuen/uudecode are not completely compatible? Check to see if your uuencode uses ` instead of spaces. It may be that when you download, xmodem is stipping trailing blanks, or deleting blanks lines. I suppose you should check your settings on xmodem as well. As to why anyone would want to uuencode a file before downloading, I would like to mention that this is how I download 99.9% of my stuff. The system I use to do most of my downloading ONLY supports kermit. The main connection I use is goes through 8-7-8 bit connections. When I download in binary format, those conversions take some considerable overhead. I can download a uuencoded file in text format faster than I can download the corresponding text file. This same connection, when using zmodem to download from this unix system, only text files can be downloaded. Binary files with zmodem are right out. There are reasons for downloading using this method. -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | XEDIT: Emacs mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| on a REAL Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | operating all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | system. :->