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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:57:06 CST
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- From: Alan Rea <gwdokokl!ahrea@MAILHOST.ECN.UOKNOR.EDU>
- Subject: Re: HELP!! FTP?
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- >I am trying to FTP a file from another machine. It is a GIF file.
- >Each time I get it to my PC all I get is garbage. We transfered the
- >file in BINARY and then downloaded it to the PC via KERMIT. Please
- >help.
- >
- > Chris Wade
- > US Forest Service
- > Internet: to-wade@fsl.orst.edu
-
- Did you do a BINARY transfer with KERMIT, too? There are several
- versions of KERMIT out there, some of which are pretty unreliable. (I
- have had some problems with C-KERMIT, both on a SUN and on a PC running
- MINIX). The PC version 3.00 of KERMIT is pretty good, and allows you
- to explicitly specify binary or ascii mode for transfers (set file type
- bin). Older versions tried to automatically determine whether the file
- was binary or ascii, and sometimes guessed wrong. If you're running
- an older version of MS-KERMIT, you might try getting a newer one for
- your PC. It's around for ftp lots of places, Columbia University is
- the official source. (Of course, you have to get the KERMIT program
- onto your PC first, in binary mode, which can turn into a
- chicken-and-egg problem. I'm sure you can find KERMIT on a floppy
- somewhere on campus -- I got my MS at OSU Ag. Engineering, which is now
- "Bioresource" Engineering, you could ask Bob in the Dept shop -- or you
- could try the Computer Science Dept.)
-
- Good luck.
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- Alan Rea, Hydrologist * ahrea@csdokokl.cr.usgs.gov (USE THIS ONE!)
- U.S. Geological Survey * "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA * who falsely believe they are free" -- Goethe
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