Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Uniterm & Kermit
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.145651.4135@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 14:56:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.114315.19825@watdragon.waterloo.edu> badorion@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian A. Dorion) writes:

>I'd be interested in any advice people have as well.  I download some-
>thing to my ST, and when I try to unarc it, the arc usually comes up
>with a comment like "This uses 13 bits I can only handle 12."  Can anyone 
>tell me why the files I try to downloaded after ftp'ing keep getting
>smashed?  The text files are ok, its just the binaries that are getting
>creamed.

Just as an experiment, try uuencoding the file first, then transfer
it the the ST, UUDecode it, and then try ARC.

If you still have the same problem, the trouble might be with your
deARCer.

If the problem goes away, you were probably not getting a faithful
transfer of the binary (ARC) file. 

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