Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!burdvax!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: uudecode blues Message-ID: <2103@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 13:37:23 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2103 Posted: Mon Jul 13 13:37:23 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 04:06:20 EDT References: <4476@videovax.Tek.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 in article <4476@videovax.Tek.COM>, stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) says: > Summary: Transfer uuencoded; uudecode on the Amiga > I have successfully transferred both ASCII and binary files from our > 4.2BSD UNIX VAX to my Amiga with Kermit. One thing that helps is to send > the files from the VAX in uuencoded form and then uudecode them on the > Amiga. There are several versions of uudecode on the Fish Disks. (I > believe one of the later ones is on Fish Disk #53.) That works OK, and that's the way I used to do it. But it takes longer to send the UUENCODED file over (even at the 9600 baud I use here all the time). The largest problem folks seem to have with Kermit is setting the modes correctly on both ends of the transfer. To send binaries, you must specify image mode on both sides of the transfer. To send text, you could set text transfers. Only this is, IMAGE mode is really defined by Kermit to mean binary OR UNIX-to-UNIX transfer of text. Since the Amiga's text file look just like UNIX text files, the Amiga is UNIX as far as Kermit is concerned. So what I do is set Kermit on both sides to default to image mode. Since I set it up this way, I haven't had a single problem running binaries UUDECODED on out VAX. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The A2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world" -Beach Boys