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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: RE: Problems in FTPing from SHSU
- Message-ID: <00966FB4.97EBAE40.19638@SHSU.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:06:33 CST
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- In <1993Jan21.153023.13908@bsu-ucs> (comp.text.tex, 21 Jan 93 20:30:23 GMT)
- <00r0ravichan@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu> posted:
- > I have encountered problems in FTPing files from SHSU site.
- >
- > I have used the following procedure to download files from SIMTEL site
- > without any problems.
- >
- > I have a VAX/VMS account and use FTP to anonymously login.
- > I issue the command "binary" to set the transfer the file.
- > Then I use the "get" command to get the file.
- > I logout from the ftp site and start up VAX/VMS kermit server.
- > I then use MS-Kermit to download the file to my PC.
- > I then use PKunzip to unzip the file.
- > Everything so far has worked fine (EXCEPT for SIMTEL index-creation
- > and maintenance program for the MSDOS collection).
-
- In a subsequent posting, the use of setting the file type to binary in
- Kermit was on for the local download was indicated.
-
- > However, when I use the above procedure with SHSU, I get
- > the following error message:
- >
- > PKUNZIP: Warning: DVISPELL.ZIP - Error in ZIP use PKZipFix
- >
- > When I use the UNZIP utility (that I downloaded from SHSU
- > using the same procedure as above) issues the following error
- > message:
- >
- > Warning: Extra 267 bytes at beginning or within zipfile.
- > (attempting to pass anyway)
- > Error: Start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt.
- > (Please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
- > appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled unzip properly)
- >
- > Although the above message seems to make sense, I am lost as to
- > how to solve the problem.
-
- With the very broad exception of the emTeX files or files with PKUNZIP
- actually in the directory, UNZIP (5.0) is supposed to be used on files from
- SHSU. Since DVISPELL.ZIP is from emTeX, PKUNZIP is appropriate. A very
- general guess on this is that your parity is messed up somewere.
- Unfortunately, the variety of Kermit utilities on VMS vary widely in their
- defaults. I seem to recall that MS-Kermit uses even parity; Kermit-32 and
- C-Kermit on VMS both default to no parity. In just about every case where
- VMS has been involved which has been brought to my attention, it was a
- parity problem. My real puzzle here is how you got UNZIP from SHSU to
- work.
-
- > On a related note, I used the pkunzip and unzip on other .zip files
- > that I have downloaded from SIMTEL before. Everything seems to be fine.
- > I have not changed any communications parameters on my PC and
- > VAX/VMS ends.
-
- Are you sure that the system-level Kermit didn't change on the VMS side?
-
- > Obviously, I am doing something wrong. HELP!
- >
- > Also , How do I use UUNENCODED files and put them together under
- > VAX/VMS, PC and UNIX platforms?
-
- You need to concatenate the files (in VMS, you can generally use the APPEND
- command verb to create a file, or use EVE or some other editor to simply
- include the files into one another). Once concatenated, strip out any
- headers so that you have a file which is 61 characters wide and full of
- absolute nonsense. This is were editing on the fly for concatenation comes
- in handy.
-
- Use the UUDECODE utility to decode the nonsense into its original file
- format. In the directory [FILESERV.UUCODE] on Niord.SHSU.edu
- (192.92.115.8) is a set of files for the UU*CODE suite. The C sources are
- for just about every platform. There is also a copy of the executables for
- VMS, as well as a command file to make these in VMS. You may also retrieve
- these via e-mail by including:
- SENDME UUCODE
- in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
-
- On DOS and Unix there are some scripts to do this automagically. Once the
- VV*CODE suite is available, we will probably migrate to that as it is an
- awful lot smarter and takes away the concatenation nonsense. The betas on
- VV*CODE which I have used are marvelous, BTW.
-
- Regards, George
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