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From: Mandel@bco-multics.hbi.honeywell.COM (Mark Mandel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE on Xmodem-ed files
Message-ID: <880906212025.760759@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 88 21:20:00 GMT
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I'm entering this message on behalf of an acquaintance.  Can anyone
help him?
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    Hello.  I'm a pretty new modem-user, and I've been having trouble
with downloads (pretty common eh!).  Through the help of some nice (not
to mention smart) people on various BBS's, I've gotten some useful
info, but not all my problems are solved.  SO- anyway, whenever I
transfer a Binary or Basic or anything program to my disk, it comes out
as a TXT (text) file.  I use Xmodem because most boards use that.  If
the program is Binary II packed the problem is solvable.  But if it
isn't, here's where the trouble comes.  I can use a file type changer,
and this works O.K.  on basic , but if I change the text file to Binary
(if it was meant to be so), I get this error message when I Brun the
program : NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE.  What the heck does that mean?  I'm not
to good with ProDOS.  Oh by the way I have an unenhanced (ugh, but I'm
getting the kit) IIe with a spanking new Datalink 2400.  Now, could
this file type problem just be due to the ProDOS file information being
lost when the file was uploaded, as some tell me?  I can just use
ProDOS file transfer instead of Xmodem, etc., but not many BBS's have
it.  Is this a normal problem that Apple telecommunicators have?
Please help me in any way possible.  I would really love to get my
hands on some of the fantastic software available.  Thank you VERY
much.
                                  -Brian Bettencourt
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From Mark Mandel, Mandel@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM, or
          Honeywell Bull, Inc., m/s 826A
          Billerica, Mass. 01821
          USA

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