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From: yz2y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: FTP Arc Transfers
Keywords: atari st, ftp, arc
Message-ID: <17540@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 04:00:36 GMT
Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Reply-To: yz2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Steve Coco)
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY
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     	I'm hoping someone out there can help me with this one. Recently I
have been attempting to obtain ARC files from ftp sources such as 
him1.cc.umich.edu and cs.orst.edu. Now that I have finally figured out how
to find my way to these files once I am connected, I am encountering another
problem. Somewhere along the transfer line between the archive site and my
ST, the format of the ARCed files becomes 'screwed up'. For when I try to
unarc them, I consistently get the same message: "The file *******.ARC has a
bad header." .
	The transfer procedure I am using involves first sending the files to
my school's mainframe system ( I have tried this on both our VAX 8530 and IBM
7171 systems). I then use Kermit on Uniterm 2.0c to send them to my ST. I do
have binary mode set all the way, except on Uniterm; and the actual transfer
process works fine. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
        A suggestion to the operators of the above-mentioned FTP sites would
be to use Dumas UUEncode on their files. I believe this would greatly reduce
the chance of this type of error occurring.
	Also, while I'm on the topic. How many times do users of this newsgroup
have to request the locations of other ST Archive Sites before they finally
get a response?!!!!!

	Thanks in Advance,
	Steve Coco

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Steve Coco
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