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From: slindahl@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Mr. MBA" Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Paperclip/XMODEM
Message-ID: <2767@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 13:19:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 13:19:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 06:42:22 EST
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Has anyone experienced problems in downloading text files via xmodem for
the Paperclip 64 word processor?  The problem seems to be specific to the
files that I store on BSD4.2. 

Since I move around between terminals and word processors, I find that it
is easy to create and store text files on the UNIX system here at school.
When I need to print them out, I download them onto my Commodore 64 and
then load the file from the word processor.  Last week, xmodem was
installed onto our UNIX system.  Seeing that xmodem protocol is given in
my terminal program, I proceeded to use it.  Everything seemed to 
transfer as it should have until I loaded the file in from disk with my
word processor.  When I first transfered the file, I sent it as a text
file and stored it as a PRG file since Paperclip uses these to read in the
text.  When Paperclip tried to read the file, it produced graphics
characters where the letters should be.  Thinking that Paperclip wanted
to read the file in as a SEQ file, I then downloaded the file again and
this time I save it as a SEQ file.  When Paperclip tried to read this one
from my disk more garbled characters appeared that did not represent any
pattern whatsoever.  Finally, I just did a virtual transfer without any
error checking and saved it as a SEQ file.  With this, Paperclip was able
to read the data file...

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.  If the answer is
something simple then please just send me Email.  One final note, I used
the VIP terminal program for the downloading process...



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Steve J. Lindahl               {hplabs, seismo}...!hao!udenva!duorion!slindahl

             The Beast is loose, and it's hungry tonight...(Platoon)