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From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Subject: Re: Sys7 from ftp.apple.com corrupted?
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jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) writes:

>In article <1991May16.182322.1@sif.claremont.edu> dwright@sif.claremont.edu writes:
>>Well, I finally managed to get on bric-a-brac eaaaaarly this morning, and
>>downloaded all of the high-density images but tid-bits (at which point
>>bric-a-brac crashed), transfered them from the UNIX machine, tried to unbinhex
>>them---- and every single file was corrupted!  Has anyone had any luck with
>>decoded the images at the ftp site, or is just me & my braindead machine?
>>
>Did you remember to do a Binary Image transfer? This has bitten me many times...

>JackB.

Binhexed files are ascii files, not binary files.  If you transferred
them using binary mode, then that could be part of the problem.

  --Jerry

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