Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nnews!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!cunyvm!byuvm!byuvax!yoda!ldg From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: I could use some help right now.... Message-ID: <473ldg@yoda.byu.edu> Date: 7 May 91 19:35:32 GMT Lines: 35 In , NORVELL@KNOX.BITNET (ozymandias G desiderata) writes: > 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 >than 512 bytes). ... > [consequences deleted] While it is true that the VAX will spite you if you send it long lines without the necessary line-terminating linefeed, which is what would happen if you were to send it a binary file, the files you were after are _not_ binary. The original files have been Stuffed (using StuffIt) then binhexed (also using StuffIt) and are now sitting there as ordinary text format files. Try your transfer again using ascii text format, then use kermit to transfer them to your Mac. The lines are something less than 80 characters long, so there should be no problem. >Send any responses >to me at NORVELL@KNOX.BITNET. The sooner the better (impatient youth!). Email from our network to bitnet nodes sometimes fails for no obvious reason, so I will post this as well as trying to Email you. Enjoy MacLogimo Plus! We are working on the new version at present. Send me any comments, etc., you might have. --Lyle Lyle D. Gunderson N6KSZ | "Any technology without | ldg@yoda.byu.edu 350 CB/BYU | some attendant risk of misuse | CIS: 73760,2354 Provo UT 84602 | is probably trivial" | GEnie: L.GUNDERSON | --Louise Kohl | AOL: LGunderson