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From: edmoy@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: File transfer revisited
Message-ID: <241@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 15:20:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 20 15:20:02 1985
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>CALLING ALL MACDETECTIVES
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>
>Okay.
>
>So I used XBIN and MACPUT to try to transfer some public domain programs from my
>VAX account to my Mac.  The settings (MacTerminal -0.15 Alpha) were 8-bit, no
>parity, modem, and Macintosh.  I got the transfer percentage "thermometer" to
>appear on the screen.  What happened after that varied a bit/byte.
>
>In one case, I got a half-hour of code mostly streaming down the right edge of
>the MacTerminal window with lots of "beeping".  In other cases, I got a "Bad
>MacFile" error box.  Sometimes I just got the dollar-sign prompt back.  In all
>cases, I got vestiges of files (0-1K).  The icon for each of these files was
>either a Macwrite icon (!) or, I think, a Macterminal document icon. 

Two things come to mind.  First of all, with -0.15 MacTerminal, you need to
use the -o option on macput.  The xmodem protocol used by MacTerminal has
changed since then.

Secondly, make sure the XON/XOFF is turned off.  The Alpha version doesn't
know to switch this off itself during file transfer.

Edward Moy
Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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