Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!hao!ames!amdcad!amd!intelca!oliveb!pyramid!uccba!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Kermit and Procomm Message-ID: <2737@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 20:43:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2737 Posted: Sun Jun 28 20:43:44 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 18:42:39 EDT References: <12809@topaz.rutgers.edu> <739@cod.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: world Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <739@cod.UUCP> by medin@cod.UUCP (Ted Medin): +--------------- | In article <12809@topaz.rutgers.edu> msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Smith) writes: | >I recently have been having trouble with my Procomm 2.4.2 and Kermit. | >It transfers text fine, but it has trouble transmitting binaries. | >When I receive a binary, such as an exe or arc file, it tacks on about | >another 1/3 the number of bytes, and the file is messed up. I have | >not changed any of the kermit defaults. Can anyone help? | | Yes i have had the same problem. Eight bit quoting was my view of the | problem. The bbs said it was 8 bit no parity but sent the 8 bit quoting | anyway and procomm wasnt looking for the quote character so it just stuck | it in the file. The bbs was a fido and that was the real root of the problem +--------------- I would suggest checking your parameters. I think my copy of Procomm defaulted to file type = "TEXT", which causes ^J to become ^M^J -- an effective way to destroy a binary file. Make sure the file type is BINARY. (I leave it at BINARY always, and vary the setting on the UNIX side if that's what I'm talking to, since it's a command line parameter (-i) on the UNIX end and a series of menus on the Procomm end.) ++Brandon -- ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ---- Brandon S. Allbery !cbosgd!ncoast!allbery aXcess Company {ames,mit-eddie,harvard,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St. #A1-105 {well,sun,pyramid,ihnp4}!hoptoad!ncoast!allbery Mentor, OH 44060-4101 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU (Internet) +01 216 974 9210 ncoast!allbery@CWRU.EDU (CSnet) Brandon Allbery on 157/504 (Fidonet/Matrix/whatever)