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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!taco!jrwaters
- From: jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS)
- Subject: Re: MSF Computer Challenge
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.233046.11760@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <BCD.93Jan22220725@redondo.mps.ohio-state.edu> <C1F05B.DzI@world.std.com> <Jan25.192940.53558@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:30:46 GMT
- Lines: 82
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- In article <Jan25.192940.53558@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> hamiltoj@CS.ColoState.EDU (j hamilton) writes:
- >In article <C1F05B.DzI@world.std.com> artc@world.std.com (Art Campbell) writes:
- >>bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bryan Dunlap) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1993Jan22.213409.19258@news.columbia.edu> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears) writes:
- >>
- >>>>The official release (1.00) of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation
- >>>>Computer Challenge is complete. This "trivial pursuit" style game is
- >>>>available from the MSF or by anonymous FTP from cerritos.edu. The
- >>>>program and all associated files are in the .ZIP archive, SKILL.ZIP.
- >>
- >>>I had no luck ftp'ing it to a unix box - something broke the format of
- >>>the zip file between vms & unix. So I ftp'd it to vms and then
- >>>kermited it onto my pc at home.
- >>
- >>I did the same thing and ended up with a corrupted .ZIP file that the
- >>zipfix utility couldn't cope with. So, to add to the previous question:
- >>A) is the Source .ZIP file corrupted? Can someone who can compare the
- >> file to a known-good one check?
- >
- >No, it is not corrupted, the one I have unzipped fine.
- >
- >
- >>B) Other than ftping in binary mode, are there any VAX-ftp tricks one
- >> has to know about t get the file home intact?
- >
- >Can't tell you about other tricks, but I can say that typing BIN at
- >the FTP> prompt was exactly what I needed to do to go from Cerritos
- >to my unix box, and then x-modem home to my pc.
- >
- >Before I did that, I got all the same errors of corrupted zip file etc.
- >
- >>C) I've heard that files zipped with the latest and greatest version
- >> of PKZIP use a different compression algorythm than earlier
- >> versions (L&G is 2.0, I think -- most people use 1.10). Which
- >> means that a 2.0 compressed file can't be opened with a 1.10
- >> utility. What version was the original SKILLS.ZIP zipped with?
- >> Could this be the problem?
- >
- >No, because a) the newest is compatible with 1.10 or
- > b) it was zipped with 1.10.
- >Don't know which, but I unzipped it with 1.02, and it is fine...
- >
- >Jay Hamilton XV1000 with more chrome than a HARLEY
- >hamiltoj@handel.cs.colostate.edu Time to change the oil AGAIN?!?!?!?
- >
- >>
- >
- >
-
- I think I can help here. It looks like you ftp'ed the file correctly.
- When you kermit the file to your pc, you have to make sure of two
- things: 1) The file is being sent in binary and 2) the file is
- being received in binary.
-
- To do 1), you have to set the file type to binary within your host
- kermit. There should be some command like "set file mode binary."
-
- To do 2), you have to set up your File Defauls on your PC Kermit
- program to binary.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
-
- Jack Waters II
-
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