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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 3.14 Binary file transfer after LYNX retrieval PROBLEM
Date: 12 Apr 1995 14:31:33 GMT
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In article <3mf4qv$jj@lester.appstate.edu>,
Watson, John McClain <JW2998@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU> wrote:
>I am having trouble downloading binary files using Kermit *after* I
>retrieved the file using LYNX. I watch the file type status as the
>transfer begins and, although it starts out as binary, it quickly changes
>to a text transfer. I have checked and double-checked Kermit several
>time and have done everything I know.
>
As explained in the documentation and in our FAQ, the transfer mode --
text or binary -- is generally determined by the file sender. You have
evidently put the file receiver into binary mode but not the sender.
The sender's file attribute packet contains an indication of the sender's
transfer mode -- in this case text -- and the the receiver switches
automatically to the sender's mode.
By the way, this would not happen if you were using the very latest
versions of MS-DOS Kermit and C-Kermit (see the FAQ for details).
Solution: tell the file SENDER to "set file type binary".
The FAQ can be found at ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/faq.txt.
- Frank