Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dfs
From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: Problem retrieving archive programs via FTP
Message-ID: <dfs.666543810@yar>
Keywords: archive FTP Kermit
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Feb13.042158.25755@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1991Feb13.152910.16132@linus.mitre.org>
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Date: 14 Feb 91 15:03:30 GMT

In <1991Feb13.152910.16132@linus.mitre.org>
dhf@linus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes:


>I finally compared hex dumps on the PC and on my
>UNIX box, and found that the Kermit-to-Kermit transfer was introducing extra
>characters - it looked like every 0Ah was being changed to 0Dh 0Ah, i.e.,
>every CR was being changed to LF-CR even though the transfer mode was
>supposedly BINARY! 

You probably did this but...

You have to 'set file type binary' on the Un*x kermit (the sender.)  Changing
this parameter on the PC version (receiver) has no effect.

--
David F. Skoll
