Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!KNOX.BITNET!NORVELL From: NORVELL@KNOX.BITNET (ozymandias G desiderata) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: I could use some help right now.... Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 18:15:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Modula2 List Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 Hello out there. I was wondering if anybody could help me with a problem that I have. I recently got access to both macOberon and the MLP public domain version of Modula-2 at the Apple server, so I thought I'd take a look at them. I used the BITFTP server at Princeton to FTP to Apple (because I'm on a VAX system running VMS). I set the transfer mode to BINARY FIXED 512 (so that I would not choke the VAX - it doesn't like buffers longer thatn 512 bytes). The files got sent to me in many little pieces that needed to be reassembled by a program called BITRCV. I didn't have that, but through pluck, perserverance, and hard work got myself a copy. I received the files. I am now attempting to transfer the .hqx files over to a Macintosh so that I can use them. The file I am using to make the transfer is Kermit, a standard VAX version on the VAX, and Mac Kermit version 0.98(62) for the Macintosh. Whenever I attempt to decode the binHex files on the Mac (using StuffIt), I cannot be- cause somehow the files have been corrupted. My pet theory is that the files need to be RECEIVED in a binary format, and BITRCV doesn't do that, or some- thing. Is there anything any of you can do for me? I'd really like to get my hands on this software and I'm clueless as to what's going on. I would greatly appreciate any help any of you could give me. If I did something wrong in the process of receiving them, is there any way I can fix this? Send any responses to me at NORVELL@KNOX.BITNET. The sooner the better (impatient youth!). Thanks Much, ozymandias G desiderata