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From: stebbins@guiduk.enet.dec.com (Gary Stebbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: (HP48) BIN2ASC on MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <1446@rust.zso.dec.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 08:58:42 GMT
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(Apologies if this is posted twice - my network connection died in the
middle of the first post.)

In article <21218@shlump.nac.dec.com>, ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph Ervin) writes...
... 
>The cause of my problems is that I'm actually emulating a PC on my
>VAX workstation.  The file format that VMS stores the MS-DOS files seems to
>confuse KERMIT and ZMODEM, thus making it impossible for me to transfer the
>binary file back to the calculator.  

It would help if you posted more information about the file format on
VMS, and which flavor and version of Kermit you're using on VMS.

Your PC emulator probably generates stream files.  If you're using
C-Kermit, it should handle stream files just fine in binary mode.  If
you're using VMS-Kermit (Kermit-32), it was written before Stream files
existed on VMS.  In that case, tell Kermit-32 to SET FILE TYPE BLOCK
before beginning the transfer.

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