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- From: dml7@navaho.uucp (25635-lee)
- Subject: Re: Downloading from UNIX
- Reply-To: dml7@navaho.UUCP (25635-lee,danny)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:08:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.170826.21313@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <Brsqon.J8B@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>
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- In article <Brsqon.J8B@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani) writes:
- >I am experiencing some problems downloading *.arc and *.zip files from
- >a SGI UNIX system. I am using the xmodem protocol and the transfers seem
- >fine (Downloading using Windows 3.0 terminal accessory) but when I try to
- >unzip the *.zip I get an error message which says that the file is not in
- >a pkzip file. Any suggestions?. TIA.
- >--
- >
- >Tarun Kripalani (of Wounded Knee and now Wounded Shoulder)
- >e-mail: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
- >Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University,
- >Kingston, Ontario.
-
- did you specify to your communications protocol that you are downloading
- binary files and not plain ascii files. usually, if you do not specify,
- it will assume ascii. then again, it could be another problem altogether.
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- / Danny / dml7@navaho.cc.bellcore.com /
- / Lee / dml@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu /
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