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- From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce)
- Subject: Re: Uploading (file is bigger?)
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
- Message-ID: <DpK1q2.B90@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:54:02 GMT
- References: <4k9tp2$m75@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!)
-
- In article <4k9tp2$m75@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Vardy David <vardy@engr.mun.ca> wrote:
-
- >When I y-modem upload a file to my Unix account, I find that the file
- >ends up being bigger. Do other people encounter this? For example, say
- >I upload a text file to my account. I then print it to screen with the
- >command Cat. At the end of the text I whole bunch of reverse ? are
- >printed. Is there anything can be done about this? It seems that any
- >file uploaded is padded at the end up to the size of the Y-modem packet
- >that is used.
-
- I think that it's the crappy Y-Modem protocol that is causing the problem.
- You might try to uuencode your data before uploading and then uudecoding it
- after uploading (the padding won't damage your data in this case), or, if
- you can, you might try my FX protocol. You need to compile a C-language
- program on your Unix host and you need to use ACE on your Commodore, but it
- is the most kick-ass protocol available for Commodores. You might also try
- Novaterm 9.6 which can upload using Z-Modem (which presumably has gotten
- past the fixed-block-size problem).
-
- Keep on Hackin'!
-
- -Craig Bruce
- csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca
- "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #48: The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife."
-