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Subject: ASDG Recoverable Ram Disk News (really Kermit bug)
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 12:39:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 12:39:59 1987
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Reply-To: walton@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Walton)
Organization: Calfornia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: kermit binary
Summary: bug in binary file transfer with C Kermit

In the referenced articles, a few people complain about problems getting
the ASDG RRD (and other files) into their machine.  One even goes so far
as to transfer all the files back to the original machine, with a diff 
to catch any failures.  This sounds like an unnecessary waste of time to
me.
   I think some of the problems people have been having are due to a
recently reported bug in C-Kermit (used under Unix and also the basis
of Amiga Kermit) which can result in a truncated transfer of a binary
file.  Details and a possible bug fix are in mod.protocols.kermit
(Volume 6, Number 1 of the Info-Kermit Digest).  Until the fix is
verified, C-Kermit users had probably best send uuencoded files to
their Amiga's as text and decode them there.