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From: jjboritz@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm upload but not download?
Message-ID: <3076@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 04:22:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.3076
Posted: Sat Jul 11 04:22:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:33:29 EDT
References: <117@cpt.UUCP> <120@cpt.UUCP> <1720@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjboritz@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Jim Boritz)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 26
Summary: This cannot be the only problem.

In article <1720@umn-cs.UUCP> fischer@umn-cs.UUCP (Scott Fischer) writes:
>> I cannot download from UNIX to my AT-compatible with kermit, ymodem, or
>> xmodem.  Kermit complains that it can't open file, while the other protocols
>> just silently fail.  (I did try both text and binary in C-kermit)
>
>On the Unix end of the connection, you need to chmod the file to be
>downloaded to 666 or some other mode that allows executable access by anyone.
>It's a kludge, that we discovered after days of trying to download several
>files.

First off, 666 is read and write access for everybody, not execte access.
Execute is the last bit of each octal digit and usually involves using 
a 7 as the mode.

Secondly, this cannot be the only problem.  I have successfully downloaded
many files that were set to 644. (i.e. read write permission for user,
read only permission for group and other, execute permission for none) 

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