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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Downloading Files
Message-ID: <8806200300.aa09880@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 20 Jun 88 05:19:10 GMT
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> I have been able to download files to our mainframes with no problem using
>FTP.  My problem has been in getting them up to my Apple.  The only way I

The conventional usage refers to the host (mainframe) as "up" (use ftp to
transfer to mainframe and 'download' to Apple).

>have to get them is to list them to a screen and capture the buffer. The
>downside of this is that there is a carriage return (or maybe it is a line
>feed) at the end of each 80col.  This means that all program lines (in an
>EXECable file) running over 80col die during EXEC.  The file I am trying
>to get will allow me to do direct file transfers but until then...
>Any suggestions on how to get rid of those linebreaks?  Appleworks re-inserts
>them when writing to an ASCII file on disk.

What commware are you using?  Surely your mainframe supports Kermit; if
you haven't Kermit already, you probably can "capture" the EZ Install
EXECs because they are < 80 columns.  Kermit will download files that will
EXEC just fine if they haven't been corrupted before they arrive at your
mainframe.

EXEC expects <cr> at the end of lines, but lines may be as long as 255
characters.  Depending on what's being EXEC'd, EXEC may not like LFs (^J)
a whole lot (LF's crash EXECUTIONER files).

I'm not an AppleWorks user, but you should be able to define the page width
to 255 and define a "printer" that doesn't want LF's (LF=NO) so that you
can write an ASCII file to disk that'll work.

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