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lukas@freya.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Lukas) writes:


>      I recently bought a new 386 system, and I'd really like to download some 
>of the giant amount of software available via anonymous ftp, but I've
>been having problems.  I only have an old version of pkzip, so I first
>downloaded a bunch of archive utilities to my unix account, then I 
>used kermit to download them to my system.  They didn't run at all.
>I tried it several more times from different ftp servers, but no luck
>with anything at all.  Does anyone know what is wrong?  The files I tried
>to download and run were .exe and .com files, but they just froze my system
>when I ran them.  I checked, and kermit downloads files to and from my system
>with no errors.  Help!

>Chris Lukas
>lukas@cs.umass.edu

	Two points to note:
	1) did you specify the "binary" file type during your ftp from the
archive site into your unix account?  this MUST be done for all non-text (ascii)
files.
	2) try using Zmodem from the unix to the home system (if you can) it is
much faster and has a better error check.  It will also allow you to resume
interupted downloads (with kermit you have to download the entire file over
again, even if you only had the last 2K to go).

Hope this helps

Shawn

pittman@alpha.uleth.ca

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