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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: 15 Dec 88 22:21:26 GMT
References: <3763@pt.cs.cmu.edu| <13933@oberon.USC.EDU| <10455@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU|
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In article <10455@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU| brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant) writes:
|In article <13933@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||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 
| 
|ahh, but have you tried transmitting binary files with Amiga Kermit
|4D (060)?  It occasionally drops a byte.  (yes I do set file type binary
| [stuff deleted]
|This is all very frustrating.  Furthermore files which transferred
|incorrectly, will do so again, indicating broken Kermit.

If a particular port/implementation of Kermit is broken, that does not
mean that "Kermit", the protocol, is.  The statement that "Kermit doesn't
work on binary files" is plain FALSE.  The fact that AmigaKermit is
broken is another story.  Complain with whoever ported it [which is
likely to send the compain /dev/null anyway; you get what you pay for:-)],

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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