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

	Amazing. I had the same problem this weekend while trying to
	download *.exe files. I followed the same path that Christopher
	did: downloaded from the ftp archive site to my workstation
	(yes, using binary mode...). Then I used xmodem to download
	it to my PC using Windows standard-issue Binary xfer option.

	One of the files that I downloaded: pkz110eu.exe failed with
	the following message:

	"Cannot execute pkz110eu.exe". 

	The other one simply hung. So please, if someone knows what's
	wrong (and a possible solution) please post it to the newsgroup.

	Thanx.

	/hemal.

	
	


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		/hemal.