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From: rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FTP Arc Transfers
Keywords: binary, FTP, arc , kermit
Message-ID: <12168@hall.cray.com>
Date: 15 Dec 88 17:51:57 GMT
References: <17549@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <1475@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <1475@helios.ee.lbl.gov> keithj@ux1.lbl.gov (Keith J Groves) writes:
=Hi Steve,
=      I too seem to have trouble de arcing files by way of FTP
=transfer. I use kermit after receiving the files on our computers

i TOO had troubles, but it was ONLY with utermisc.arc from him1. the arc
itself is composed of several other arcs. arc t on the main file
was a-ok after ftp BUT arc t on the arcs within the arc gave errs.
a quick peek with a dump util showed 0x0D,0x0A (cr-lf) messing up the
headers and elsewhere so i just wrote a filter to find these and filter
the 0x0D (cr) out. the resulting new arc was fine. this leads me to
believe that the original posting may be flakey, especially since the
other 5 or 6 arc files i moved in exactly the same way (ftp from
him1, image type/kermit on unix side, binary mode (always!)/uniterm
binary mode).

give it a try. it only took about 5 min to write such a code. just make
surce u open the files on binary mode (fopenb/openb of "rb", depending on
yer compiler...).

-bill