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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help with ftp
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Date: 29 Mar 88 03:28:26 GMT
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>I've just tried my first ftp from sumex-aim.  I used binary ftp and got a
>Stuffit file onto my vax.  What I'm having problems with is getting the file
>from the vax to my mac.  I've tried all variations on Kermit, but Stuffit
>always rejects the result because of a "bad header".  I've also tried a thing
>called macput that came with Sumacc many years ago.  Again, no luck.  Can
>anybody help?

	Your problem is probably due to using binary ftp.  Most of the
stuff on sumex-aim is in *.hqx format, an ascii coding of binary.  So
to get the stuff from sumex-aim, you need to do an ascii transfer.  You
should be able to read the line:
(This file must be ... with binhex 4.0)
or some such at the begining.  You then download it and convert it
with binhex (and then perhaps stuffit or pit).
sumex-aim (a tops-20 machine) has binary that is very very strange.

Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia.EDU