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From: len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: simtel20 arc format
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Date: 9 Mar 89 21:22:07 GMT
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From article <10826@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by mallari@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Mallari):
> I have pkxarc and it worked fine.  Something must have gone wrong with 
> your transfer between either Simtel20 and your machine or your machine and
> your PC.  To be sure I did the same thing you did, I typed 'type tenex' at
> the ftp prompt and then got the file.  Then I downloaded the files to a 
> pc that happens to be on the network.  I tried pkxarc and it worked.  See
> if 'tenex' works.

If you use kermit for the transfer between a unix machine and your pc, be
sure to use "set file type binary" in the host (unix) machine before
beginning the file transfer.

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