Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!4204_5147
From: 4204_5147@uwovax.uwo.ca (Claude Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FTP Arc Transfers
Keywords: ftp addresses
Message-ID: <1096@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 15 Dec 88 06:41:18 GMT
References: <17540@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Lines: 31
Organisation: University of Western Ontario, Canada

In article <17540@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>, yz2y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU writes:
> 
>      	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
> YZ2Y@CRNLVAX5                       "Don't Dream It, Be It!"
> YZ2Y@CORNELLA                               - Richard O'Brien
> YZ2Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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