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From: jbernat@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Bernatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm & Kermit
Message-ID: <7190@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 15:51:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, by badorion@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian A. Dorion):

>>Help!  I'm having big problems trying to get Uniterm to download 
>>files with kermit.  Can someone send me a detailed message on what to 
>>do?
>
> I'd be interested in any advice people have as well.  I download some-
> thing to my ST, and when I try to unarc it, the arc usually comes up
> with a comment like "This uses 13 bits I can only handle 12."  Can anyone 
> tell me why the files I try to downloaded after ftp'ing keep getting
> smashed?  The text files are ok, its just the binaries that are getting
> creamed.

I suspect you did not tell the remote kermit server to send in Binary
mode.  Both the local and remote systems MUST be set to binary mode because
the default is text.  (LF's are converted to LF/CR or the other way around.)

SET FILE TYPE BINARY

Enter the above command for both the remote and local kermit.  If you
are using Kermit to Xfer files from a Vax, you may wish to look for
sx,sb,sz (Send Xmodem, Batch (Ymodem), Zmodem, respectively.)  Also,
rx,rb,rz are the receive counterparts.  Once I found these, I found
Kermit to be too annoying and slow to deal with.