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- From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: UPloading
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:35:17 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 59
- Message-ID: <1gfvp5INN451@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <Dec.12.19.16.31.1992.13092@romulus.rutgers.edu>
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- amyt@romulus.rutgers.edu (Amy Humphries) writes:
-
- >I have several questions about uploading:
-
- >Note: I am using desterm.
-
- >1. When I try uploading a text file, all the lines are appended
- >together (i.e. no carriage returns). How can I fix this?
-
- What system are you uploading to? The problem probably has to do with the
- fact that every system in the world uses different conventions for line
- terminators. Some of the ones I know are (CR=Carriage return=$0D, LF=Line feed=$0A):
-
- C=64, 128 : CR
- MS-DOS, VMS : CRLF
- AmigaDOS, Unix : LF
-
- There are conversion utilities out there which will change the line
- terminators.
-
- Are you already changing between ASCII and PETSCII? That is anther mess, the
- text files on the 64 and 128 having their uppercase and lowercase letters
- reversed (sort of).
-
- If you upload with Kermit, uploading files as text files, you can have all of
- this taken care of during the transfer. I don't think that DesTerm's xmodem
- (etc.) uploads will take care of any of this.
-
- >2. I have downloaded some stuff from Qlink, including Mah-jongg. I
- >know it was requested that this stuff be uploaded to an ftp site. I
- >want to know if this is "legal" or will Qlink be upset.
-
- Unless it was in one of the "special" libraries which are for Q-Link members
- only, all of the stuff on Q-Link is freely distributable, meaning you can give
- it away, upload it to any BBS or ftp site, or any other service you want.
-
- >2b. What ftp site should I put them on?
-
- You can stick it in /pub/rknop/INCOMING on ccosun.caltech.edu. I'll even get
- around to cleaning up the site pretty soon here :)
-
- >2c. Will there be problems similar to that with text files (i.e. read
- >question one)?
-
- Perhaps, but not if you are careful to do everything right. Make sure you
- upload everything as "binary." When doing transfers under xmodem, this will
- always happen (but make sure that the terminal program you use is set to do NO
- tranlations on the file it sends). When ftp'ing files, make sure to type
- "binary" before getting or putting files from/to ftp sites.
-
- >3. I also have novaterm9.3 but I don't use it. Would this be better
- >to use for uploading, than desterm?
-
- Unless I am wrong, DesTerm can do everything in the up/download department
- that novaterm can. If you have a 128 and have DesTerm working, there's no
- reason why you should try to use NovaTerm.
-
- -Rob
- rknop@cco.caltech.edu
-