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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Downloading Binaries
Message-ID: <4751@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 87 18:06:59 GMT
References: <2873@sdsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
Lines: 29
Keywords: UUDECODE DOWNLOAD
Summary: Try "Set File Type Binary"; even better, uudecode on the Amiga!

In article <2873@sdsu.UUCP>, Roger (?william uzun?, uzun@sdsu.UUCP) writes:

> Every time I try and download a binary and run it I get an amigados
> "File is not an object module" error.  What I do is write the file to 
> my space, cut off the stuff up to and including the ----cut here---
> line, and run /bin/sh on it.  I then usually get a doc file and a .uu
> file.  I then do a uudecode on the file which gives me what I think
> is the object module.  I kermit that module over to my amiga
> using VT100 V2.7.   I then run XCHOP on it (which typically removes
> a single character) and try and run it.  It has yet to work.  Am I
> doing something wrong?  (The last time I tried to do this was on the
> Virus 1.2 program)

Two possible fixes.  First, you can tell Kermit "Set File Type Binary" at
both ends (the sender controls; if you tell them both, you're bound to
be listened to, right?).  Don't use XCHOP.  Unlike XMODEM, Kermit doesn't
add extra characters to the end of a file.

Even better, transfer the uuencoded file and then uudecode it on the
Amiga (uudecode is available on Fish Disk #53, I think).  I transfer the
uuencoded binary and then uudecode on the Amiga.  It takes an extra
minute for a large binary.  And it works.

					Steve Rice

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