Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!jjboritz 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) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ /| "Cat's don't look up to anyone." | | \`O_o' "Especially not human beings!" -- Stephen Baker | | ( ) How to Live With a | | U Jim Boritz Neurotic Cat | | | | Ack! lotsofmachines!watmath!watdragon!jjboritz | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+