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From: dave@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Dave Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kermit Problem with VT100
Message-ID: <1591@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 19:24:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 30 19:24:22 1986
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> I'm having a problem either with VT100 or with Kermit, I'm not sure
> which.  I have a bunch of files on our UNIX system, which I'm downloading
> en-masse to my Amiga (since I'm leaving soon to take a sabatical, and I want
> to take the stuff with me).
> 
> To cut down on time, I compressed the files with compress(1).  
> It produces file names like strings.c.Z.  Using Unix Kermit and VT100 (v2.2?)
> on my Amiga, these come out as strings.cxz.  Now I have to go back by hand
> and change all these files to strings.c.z so that compress -d will uncompress
> them.  
I've been using my kludgely hacked arc from the net (kludged to the point
of not being able to automatically apply diffs to the originals that others
post). Anyhow, using unix arc both compresses and allows you to grab
directories of crud at a time.
> 
> Does anyone know what is going on here?  Is this fixed in a more recent
> release of vt100?  
I doubt vt100 is the culprit. Can you type:
Ckermit> help set file names

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