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From: CYLau@UNCAMULT.BITNET (The Ultron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Binscii mess
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Date: 7 Apr 89 02:28:00 GMT
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Reason why ProTerm's Kermit messes up the majority of BinSCII format
downloads:  ProTerm's Kermit protocol automatically translates lf into
crlf (or something similar to that), but what that does, is if the file
was BinSCII'd for a Unix system (with only lf separating) ProTerm will
translate all those into crlf..  and BinSCII will choke on the extra cr
on each line...  Executioner on the other hand, doesn't care what's on
the end of a line, as long as the line is terminated (it DOES, but it
doesn't choke like BinSCII when something extra is added) To correct
this problem, there are several solutions:

 1- Download with an xmodem variant-> xmodem preserves the current form
 of the file and thus BinSCII will have no problems
 2- After download, load the file into the ProTerm editor (one of the ONLY
 things I LIKE about ProTerm) and replace all cr with nothing (ie. do
 a replace of ctrl-m with nothing (hit return in response to
 "replace with" prompt)) and then resave the file and process with BinSCII
 3- Get the "REAL" Kermit 65 (thanks to Ted Medin for this wonderful program!)
 and turn off the crlf translation before downloading...  (Kermit 65 3.85
 is also a bit faster than ProTerm's Kermit, especially if you set the
 packet size to maximum (ProTerm is limited to the "standard" 80
 character packet))

Those are the solutions to the problems...  none are really elegant...
Maybe someone can fix BinSCII so it doesn't choke on a unix encoded
BinSCII which has extra cr's inserted??  (Dave Whitney-> Are you
listening??)

Chris




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