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Article #8005Re: Problems unzipping files after KERMIT
From: Craig Nelson
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1991 09:50
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1991 09:50
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daneman@czech.sw.mcc.com (Michael Daneman) writes: >There seems to be a number of people having this problem. So here's my solution: >uuencode the file before downloading it, then download the uuencoded >version. When the file is on you pc disk use the PC version of >uudecode (foudn in the start up kit in comp.binaries.ibm.pc) to decode >the file back. UUencodeing makes the file into a pure text file, >which I can usually download with no problems. I have a better solution. Try setting the default download and upload parameters on both systems to BINARY. For instance, Procomm and many other tcom packages allow you to do this. I used to have this same problem, until I read the manual. Craig (mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!mwizard From: mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Problems unzipping files after KERMIT Message-ID: <1838@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 91 09:50:24 GMT References: <4869@czech.sw.mcc.com> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 16