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From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: bin files
Keywords: ftp, bin help!
Message-ID: <5382@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 16:09:33 GMT
References: <14326@duke.cs.duke.edu>
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <14326@duke.cs.duke.edu> currier@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Bob Currier - DCAC Network Comm. Specialist) writes:
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>The bin files do NOT work, tho... I have tried ftp in both bin and ascii mode,
>and Kermit (from my Unix host) in no and even parity, only to have Stuffit and
>and binhex barf.  What is special about the bin files?  What am I doing wrong?

The following works for me: After binary FTP I use Kermit with 'set
file type binary 8' and macbinary Kermit in VersaTerm.

Edgar

(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)