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In article <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
$Please remember that SIMTEL is a 36 bit machine. In order to receive
$binary files correctly from SIMTEL you must set TENNEX mode in FTP. 

   Somewhere between our ftp program and Simtel20, there's a check done to
ensure that I'm in tenex mode, and it reports an error if I'm not.

$  [...]  Also, when
$you go from your unix machine to DOS you need to use some sort of binary
$transfer such as kermit in binary mode ... 

   I've had problems getting files downloaded from FTP to unarc on
my DOS machine.  I grab them in tenex mode, and download them with Procomm
Plus's kermit server in binary mode, but almost always I end up with a CRC
error somewhere in the archive.  However, if I unarc them on this unix
box, they work fine.  Very strange.  But it's a pain in the butt to have
to download everything separately.

   Also, between the kermit server on this Sun and Procomm's kermit server,
any transfer totalling over 160-180k (not necessarily all in one file)
is doomed to a painful death.  Due to these two problems, I've basically
given up on getting stuff from Simtel20 (and besides which, my hard disk
is filling up :-)

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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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