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From: bobbern@delphi.com
Subject: Re: BBS and Kermit
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:41:02 GMT
Organization: @Home Network
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Arthur Marsh <marsh@ties.itu.ch> wrote:
> It sounds as if the bbs' kermit implementation isn't sending the files
> in binary mode. Can you try a conventional binary file download from the
> bbs, rather than a .qwk packet?
I watched the packet length while downloading a file listing, a zipped text
file. It jumped quickly between 80 and 81 but never seemed to vary from
those values. This suggests a 'file type text' setting is in place, no?
I was using K95 set to binary, packet length 94, and 'Kermit Robust'.
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