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From: mikef@pacifier.com (Mike Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit, Compuserve and VMS
Date: 29 Oct 1995 14:05:51 -0800
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In article <47079q$1ju@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Tim Shoppa <shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>Ack! You didn't read the .BWR file that came with VMS C-Kermit, did you?
>Quoting from the file...
>
>----begin quote
>
>FILE TRANSFER
>
>File transfer modes (TEXT vs BINARY) are set automatically for each file when
>sending. The SET FILE TYPE BINARY and SET FILE TYPE TEXT commands are ignored
>when sending files. To force binary-mode transmission, use SET FILE TYPE
>IMAGE. See the VMS appendix of "Using C-Kermit".
>
>----end quote
>
True enough. However, this holds for files being send *from* the VMS
system. I believe in this case the files are being send *to* the VMS system.
>
>ZIP files on VMS are Stream-LF type files, which C-Kermit will interpret
>as text type files. You want SET FILE TYPE IMAGE.
>
Not necessarily. ZIP2.01 produces zipfiles which have fixed
512-byte-length records which is the same as C-Kermit's default binary
mode on a VMS system. Some earlier versions of ZIP *did* use STREAM_LF
mode, however. But, as I averred above, isn't all thie irrelevant since
the original poster is sending files *to* the VMS system, in which case
they should come out fixed, 512-byte record-length files and the versions
of Info-zip's UNZIP currently available should be able to handle this
just fine.
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