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From: ens598@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric Sheffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: kermit
Message-ID: <681@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 9 Apr 88 21:31:05 GMT
References: <715@btnix.UUCP> <914@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
Lines: 17
Keywords: msdos kermit unix
Summary: re: file compression software

In article <914@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>, rk@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
> In article <715@btnix.UUCP> crouch@btnix.UUCP (Chris Rouch) writes:
> >I'm trying to transfer binary files from a vax running unix to an IBM PC
> >lookalike using kermit (C-KERMIT 4.2(030) at the unix end, MSKERMIT 2.29 
> >IBM end).
> >
> I have never managed to transfer binary files successfully from Unix to
> MS-DOS via kermit.  I always uuencode the files on Unix, transfer the files

  On the UN_X end, try implementing kermit with the -i flag.  It works for me.
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