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From: dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Problems with mac binary format transfers
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Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 18:35:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 18 18:35:52 1986
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I have been trying to use the program macbin to simplify my file
transfer process, but have had no luck in getting it to work properly.

I take a file from net.sources.mac and run it through xbin, producing
the three files .info, .rsrc, and .data.  I then run them through
macbin, which presumably combines them all into one big file.  So far
so good.  When I try to download this file to my mac, however, I have
problems.  Most of the time I use Red Rider on  my Mac.  I have tried
version 7.? and now version 8.0 with no luck.  I have also tried
Freeterm 1.8(?).  All of these programs are supposed to be able to
recognize a file in binary format.  RR, in fact, puts up a message
saying that it is receiving a binary file. On the Unix end, I have
tried kermit, sb, umodem and xmodem.  

The file arrives on my mac and usually has an icon and everything, but
it never "works".  Macwrite files are unreadable, programs always
bomb. The only other sign that anything else is wrong is that at the
beginning of the transfer, RR seems to "skip over" the first few
blocks.  That is, the counter counts quickly up to about five or so.
At the end the counter goes past where it should.  At the very end of
the receive process it will say "block #201 of 195" or something like
that.  

Can someone tell me a configuration (Unix program, Mac program) that
works?  Thanks.