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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF viewer, UUencode, Kermit
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Date: 10 Dec 88 19:57:57 GMT
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In article <3763@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>> From: zlhb0a@apctrc.uucp (Lawrence H. Brown)
>> The iff2sun program recently posted doesn't work well for me.
>> My first guess is that the iff files are coming back mundged,
>
>Give that man a cigar!  Kermit doesn't work for shit on binary
>files, even if you use binary mode.  I've been bitten by this
>one before.  You have to use UUencode or something.

Sorry to contracdict you, but kermit works just fine transmitting binary
files.  The trick for binary files is to use BINARY mode on BOTH ends
["set file type binary" on UNIX, for example].

I've transferred binary IFF files between UNIX, PC-DOG and Amiga with 
the kermits in VT100 and A-Talk III with NO problem.  In fact, kermit 
currently the ONLY protocol available that allows transfers of 8-bit
binary files over 7-bit lines (the usual lines with IBM maninframes)
using 8-bit prefixing (slow, but it works).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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