Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!ingemar From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Downloading with Kermit Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 12:03:05 GMT References: <1991Jun7.112254.622@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 30 amemjm@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes: > I have a problem getting Mac files from FTP sites. I get the files in >binary mode from (say) wuarchive, to my local VAX/VMS system. Then I dwonload >them using MacKermit, to the Mac. >Problem: Files (which are xxxxxx.SIT) appear as docs (if got into data fork) >appls (if got into resource fork) and Stuffit ignores them. Transfer .sit (or .cpt for that matter) files using binary ftp. (Which the poster did, so this is not a problem.) Download to the Mac with *Macbinary* transfer on the Mac side and *binary* on the VMS side. MacBinary is a special format used to archive two-fork files on computers that don't support it, like your VMS system. If your MacKermit does not support MacBinary, get a newer version!!! Everything older than 0.98 is too old. Oh, by the way: does anyone out there have *complete* source code to MacKermit? Since I want to add some features to MacKermit, I tried to download the sources from the Watsun archive, but the docs there are almost unuseable and I couldn't find all the files that the docs says I need. Besides, the source there isn't for some obscure cross compiler that I've never seen. Think C sources, perhaps...? -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se