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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit is eating binaries *help plz*
Date: 3 Jan 1995 00:56:44 GMT
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In article <3e9ovm$9e0@murray.cs.nyu.edu>, Leo J. Tick <tick@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I was getting ready to raise theis point. v 190 macch unix-pc. I set
>the file type binary on local. The transfer screen says text. As
>F. de C. says you have to tell both sides. However this was not the case
>in 189. Is this a global change or is it a bad build in the unic-pc.
>
Prior to C-Kermit 5A(190), MS-DOS Kermit 3.14, and IBM Mainframe Kermit
4.3.1, the file transfer mode, text or binary, was ALWAYS governed by the
file sender (as long as both Kermits supported and had successfully
negotiated the use of File Attribute packets and the "file type"
attribute). The file sender tells the file receiver the transfer mode,
and the file receiver switches accordingly, automatically.
In the new versions, but only when the two Kermit programs have a
client/server relationship, it is the *client* that determines the
transfer mode, no matter whether it is sending or receiving. This change
was made by popular demand, to address the following scenario:
1. User starts remote Kermit, puts it in server mode.
2. User escapes back to local Kermit and tells it to:
SET FILE TYPE BINARY
GET OOFA.ZIP
Previously, OOFA.ZIP would arrive in text mode. Now it arrives in
binary mode.
Please read the KERMIT.UPD (MS-DOS Kermit 3.14) or ckcker.upd (C-Kermit
5A(190)) for a fuller explanation.
- Frank