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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Downloading Binaries
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Date: 23 Dec 87 21:08:38 GMT
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In article <2158@umd5.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>I kermit binary files from a 4.3 BSD UNIX host to my amiga all the time.  On
>the unix side, I put my kermit into server/binary mode with:
>
>	kermit -x -i
>
>and then I put the Amiga/VT100 kermit into binary mode.  I have yet had this
>fail to work.

>Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU

Oh.... That may be the hook that I have been missing all these years...
I read the Kermit Protocol Manual and it says that the sending kermit
will send a packet that says:

"I know about the following protocol specifics:"
   and then go on to list things like compression, packet-length, and BINARY.

The receiving Kermit will then send back a packet that says:

"Of those specifics I can only handle the following:"
   and then will list the ones it knows, which should include BINARY if it
     can do binary.  There is no reason for it not to switch to binary mode
       if it has been told to...

Tony Sumerall (sp?):

    This is an important part of Kermit compatibility, if you Kermit doesn't
automatically switch than that explains almost every failure that I have
ever experienced with VT100.  I just Ass_U_Me'd that it was switching.
Lesson is, Set Your Kermit to BINARY when downloading files from here.
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