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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: kermit adds ~500 bytes to a downloaded *.ZIP file
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:43:56 GMT
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- tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz) writes:
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- >I apologize for asking such a basic question, but the
- >title says all. Of course, the file cannot be unpacked.
- >I'm using Procomm Plus 1.1B to download the file from a
- >UNIX machine, to which the file was in turn downloaded from
- >ftp.cica.indiana.edu (the size here was the same).
- >The file type in Procomm is set to binary; the ASCII
- >value of the 8th byte quote character is set to 38.
- >What gives?
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- You have to set the UNIX kermit program for binary too. How you do
- this varies from machine to machine, I suspect. Here, on a Sun system
- you must give the kermit command as something like...
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- kermit -i <other options....>
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- Do a "man kermit" to find out what you need on your system.
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