Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: FTP Arc Transfers Keywords: binary, FTP, arc , kermit Message-ID: <553@forty2.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 88 15:07:13 GMT References: <17549@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich Lines: 33 In article <17549@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> yz2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Steve Coco) writes: > > In my previous posting, I stated that while doing FTP transfers to my >ST I had binary mode set all the way except on Uniterm. Needless, to say I >expected and got a lot of responses saying that there is no way I can transfer >a binary file without having binary mode set on Uniterm also. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You can definitly only transfer binary files with UniTerm Kermit if you have binary mode set (the 8th bit is explictly stripped if binary mode is not turned on) (but uuencoded files are not binary in this sense). > For the past month or so, I had been unsuccessfully trying to transfer >Arc-ed files to my ST with binary mode set on Uniterm (as well as everywhere >else). The only response I kept getting was BAD CHK errors on Uniterm. Then, >one time I accidentally forgot to enable binary mode on Uniterm, and lo & >behold it was transferring!! Typical situation where this will occur is: UniTerm 8 Bit, no parity Serial connection somewhere along the line != 8 Bit, no parity 7 Bit text transfers will work with this combination, 8 Bit binary will not! (setting the RS232 port to the proper settings will force the transfer to 7 bit binary with prefixing). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole Simon Poole BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------