Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm questions
Message-ID: <526@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 16:59:23 GMT
References: <8811200724.AA21689@cs.wm.edu>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <8811200724.AA21689@cs.wm.edu> csrobe@CS.WM.EDU (Chip Roberson) writes:
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>1) When I do a xmodem dl from a Sun 3/180 SunOS 3.2 (BSD 4.2) to
>my ST using Uniterm v2.0c adn v2.0e, I get a message box telling
>me that uniterm received EOT.  It then asks if it should save the
>file or ignore it.  This always happens at the end of the transfer
>and as far as i know, it is spurious to me.  I always tell it to
>save the file and everything comes out fine.  

It isn't that spurious: a random EOT inbetween Packets would otherwise
cause the  transfer to abort  (and since the  xmodem  protocol doesn't
know about filesizes, this seems a resonable solution).


>2) 
and
>3) 
have a look at the readme for V2.0e, that should answer most questions...

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