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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help:  "zchki" error on Kermit download
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Date: 18 Feb 88 04:23:14 GMT
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In article <2560@im4u.UUCP> suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
>I've ftp-ed some files from sumex that will xbin okay on my Unix
>host, but the .hqx files can't be downloaded via Kermit.  The first
>packet is received okay and the file name appears, but then an error
>message "zchki failed:  -37" appears repeatedly with only an "OK"
>button.  The only way out is to reboot or disconnect the modem.
>

 Error -37 is bad file name. Translation: the file name is too long. This is
one thing which really iritates me when I see it in a transfer program 
especially when, as in kermit, it gets you locked into some funny mode.
change the filename to something shorter then redownload.
 PIerce Wetter

"All my friends and I are crazy.  That's the only thing that keeps us
sane."

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