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- From: straz@cambridge.apple.com (Steve Strassmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: the kermit downloading blues
- Message-ID: <9209020107.AA19967@cambridge.apple.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 02:08:40 GMT
- Sender: straz@ministry.cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 33
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Full-Name: Steve Strassmann
- Original-To: wilcox@cmns.think.com (Greg Wilcox)
- Original-Cc: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
-
- >Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 13:48:46 EDT
- >From: wilcox@cmns.think.com (Greg Wilcox)
- >To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
- >Subject: the kermit downloading blues
- >
- >I would like to download a file from cambridge.apple.com which is in .sit
- >fort. I can get it from there to my own remote login site using ftp,
- >but I cannot get it to my local machine intact. The problem is that the
- >remote site has only kermit, not xmodem (at least invoking sb doesn't
- >work). Of course by using kermit, I receive an integer number of packets,
- >the last of which is partially empty. This last packet then causes a CRC
- >error when I run BinHex.
- >
- >Is there an easy way around this problem, such as truncating the file
- >to the correct length? Or a setting in Kermit that would work?
- >Then again, I'm not very good at UN*X, and I could be overlooking something
- >there. Suggestions?
- >
-
- I don't see any files on our contrib directory in .sit form, but maybe
- you mean another directory. All our .sit files have been converted to
- binhex format (hence the "hqx" suffix), which means plain 7bit ascii
- with no lines longer than 80 chars.
-
- When you transfer the file from our site to yours, make sure you issue
- the "binary" command before saying "get" to ftp. Some unix ftp programs
- strip the 8th bit of each character if you don't do this.
-
- Kermit is also 7bit by default, so you have to do something like
- "set file type binary" before sending a file using Kermit.
-
- You might also want to contact your system administrator and inquire about
- getting xmodem (or better yet, zmodem) running on your system.
-