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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 48SX Backup Help
Message-ID: <11664@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 91 22:00:55 GMT
References: <7360100@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1991Apr12.210446.4675@bigsur.uucp>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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This is for those of you stuck on ASCII/BINARY troubles:

The reason that the downloaded backup object appears as a string is that it
was not correctly _uploaded_ to the PC/Mac.  You MUST have your PC/Mac Kermit
set for Binary receive (in the Mac version, you set Default File Type to
Binary).  If you don't do that, but instead receive the archive in ASCII,
then it will be corrupt, no matter what you later do.  The two problems 
posted to the net sound like this problem: the ARCHIVE was made to a PC/Mac
waiting in ASCII mode.

I am not thoroughly versed in the specific file format, or the differences
between ASCII and BINARY transfers with Kermit--someone else on the net will
be able to answer this question:

Is it possible to tweak an ASCII-transmitted file to make it into a valid
BINARY file, such as these previous posters need to do to make their archives
valid?

Scott.
sburke@jarthur.claremont.edu