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From: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm & Kermit
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.161931.9234@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 16:19:31 GMT
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 >>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.
 >

  You are probably not setting binary mode on either on or both ends.
  The kermit server can be set to binary with:  set file type binary
  and the uniterm end can be set to binary mode by clicking on the
  "Binary Mode" button.

                    "It works for me!"

                               Red/.