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From: rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Zoo problems
Summary: Set type binary in .kermrc
Message-ID: <8052@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 1 May 89 02:02:43 GMT
References: <2938@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D Nelson)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <2938@lindy.Stanford.EDU> GG.LSO@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lincoln Ong) writes:
> [stuff deleted]  
>On the amiga, Zoo keeps on
>complaining that the checksum is bad and the file is corrupted.
>
>The system is a Amiga 500 running VT100 2.6, and I am using Kermit
>to transfer the files.  On the host system, I have transferred
>everything using binary mode in FTP.   What am I doing wrong?  Is
>there a version of Zoo 2.0 in arc format that I can FTP?  (I seem to
>have better luck with files in arc format!)
>
You might try setting your host kermit options, especially the 
type to binary, and the amiga kermit to image mode.  Here's what I
have in my host unix .kermrc

	set file type binary
	set file name literal
	set parity even

Good luck -- Roger Nelson   rdnelson@phoenix.princeton.edu