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From: dpvc@ur-tut.UUCP (Davide P. Cervone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to go slowly nuts- moving objec
Message-ID: <2624@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 12:54:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 12:54:11 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Aug-87 03:22:55 EDT
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Reply-To: dpvc@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Davide P. Cervone)
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In article <417@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <172200080@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>> 
>> kermit isn't supposed to corrupt the files it transfers, the way
>> xmodem does.
>
>Xmodem doesn't corrupt files, it enhances them (right). Kermit can, however.
>You have to be careful or you'll lose your eighth bits (not to knock kermit:
>after all Xmodem won't even run over a 7-bit line).
>-- 
>-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)

I once TRIED to get Kermit to remove the eight bit during a transfer.  I could
get it to do it.  Eighth-bit prefixing took over.  It depends on the 
implementation, I guess.  Some Kermits might not implement 8-th bit prefixing.
Anyway, it was a long time ago.  I might have goofed.

Davide P. Cervone
dpvc@tut.cc.rochester.EDU
dpvc@ur-tut.UUCP