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From: pa1022@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1022)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: help with simtel20
Keywords: simtel20, corrupt files
Message-ID: <670@sdcc15.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 17:52:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc15.670
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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I've been trying to ftp files from simtel20.army.mil, and they all
come out corrupt.  In ARC files, the first few letters of the first
file inside come out ok, and then there's garbage and it says the
file is a few gigabytes long.  It won't get past that.
I found a file on simtel20 describing the difficulty that somebody
had in getting files to his IBM mainframe intact, and it suggested
typing "type i" followed by "type l 8" before transferring the file.
(I was just typing "binary" at first.)  When I do this, the file
ends up less corrupt, and PKUNPAK can read the archive, but all the
files inside the archive are garbage after the first 10 lines or so.
If I 'get' a text file from simtel20, it works fine.
I'm on an AT&T 3B20 running System V Unix, and am using an AT clone
running Telix to talk to that.  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

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