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From: lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, Gen DataComm, +1 203 758-1811)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: FTP help
Message-ID: <8581@gdc.portal.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 08:51:52 GMT
References: <1262@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
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In article <1262@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, jhaslup@cs.arizona.edu (Jason A. Haslup) writes:
> This may be the wrong newsgroup, but if someone could point me to the right 
> one that'd be great.  My problem is when I ftp an ibm .ZIP file and I want
> to transfer it to my computer at hom (ibm).  I download it through procomm
> using kermit, but when I run pkunzip on it, it comes up with an error.
> Do I need to run it through another program first to convert it an ibm 
> file or anything?  Any help would be appreciated, either through email or
> on here.

1) You ARE ftping in binary mode, right?

2) If you are kermiting from a VAX/VMS system, you may have to convert the
   file type from Stream/LF to Fixed 512 (or was it the other way?).

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