Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!teak.cis.ohio-state.edu!stern From: stern@teak.cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffrey a stern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: NOTE: KERMIT-65 v3.85 & BINARY FILES Message-ID: <46992@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 5 May 89 20:09:44 GMT References: <46194@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8092@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1062@n8emr.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: jeffrey a stern Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 31 In article <1062@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: > >I had a strange problem apparently with kermit 3.85 or ckermit on a VAX >this past weekend. I tried to kermit up a GIF file and kermit would just >beep at me and terminate. First I discovered that I was in text mode. So >I told kermit to use binary. Then kermit complained that the prodos file >type was txt so it wouldnt use binary mode. So I exited and changed the mode >to a BIN. Then I went back into kermit, reset its mode to binary and tried >again. Again, kermit just beeped. When I connected to the destination, >I discovered some zero length files and that was all. > >-- >Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 >75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) >osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) >The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children. Hmm... would you mind mailing me a Binscii'd copy of this GIF to me, Larry? I'd be interested in taking a look at it... Jeff Stern. ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | v | | stern@cis.ohio-state.edu: Internet | | | osu-cis!tut!stern : UUCP |:->{===%| | ` / | | "iggy pop had @ | | no idea" | |____________________________________________________________________________|