Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!lobster!mwk!wrightgr From: wrightgr@mwk.uucp (Greg Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Uniterm & Kermit Message-ID: <290.27f35764@mwk.uucp> Date: 29 Mar 91 21:04:04 GMT References: <2KY-+Z@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: M. W. Kellogg, Houston TX Lines: 40 >>>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. > > Sometimes I had a similar problem while downloading bigger archives from > our VAX. The transfered file was about 30% bigger than the original and > (guess!) it got broken, no matter what sort of archive. I'm shure the > kermit settings were correct. After wasting some time with unsuccessful > downloads, I decided to use another program which also has a built-in > kermit, but I miss the enhanced features of uniterm. > Anyone got an idea what could be wrong? (Btw. sometimes the transfer > completed successfully, using the same settings!?) This might be a little late, but I've been away for a few weeks. Anyway, if your going through a VAX system you have to change the format of the file to fixed length records before you download. If you don't, it changes all linefeeds to carriage return-linefeeds. I don't know how other systems handle it. There is a program called BILF for the VAX to do the conversion for you. BILF changes your file from stream-linefeed format to 512 fixed format and vice-versa. I don't like using 512 fixed length though because it pads the end of the file with nulls to fill out the last record. I wrote my own conversion program to use 1 byte fixed length records so that when you get it downloaded it has the correct length in the directory listing. Hope this helps, Greg Wright -- Internet: wrightgr@mwk.uucp /M\ The M.W. Kellogg Company UUCP: uhnix1!mwk!wrightgr KELLOGG 601 Jefferson lobster!mwk!wrightgr \W/ Houston, TX 77210-4557 BITNET: mwk!wrightgr%moe.rice.edu@harvunxw.bitnet (713) 753-3414