Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!NCSC.ARPA!jdb From: jdb@NCSC.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: re:Need help with Unix FTP and Kermit Message-ID: <8806032056.AA05259@ncsc.ARPA> Date: 3 Jun 88 20:56:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 Posted: Fri Jun 3 16:56:00 1988 It sounds like you are running kermit on the unix machine with file type set to text. Since unix text format is a line of stuffwhen it is sent out by things like ftp, kermit, xmodem, etc. they insert a in front of the 's. This works fine for text files but wrecks havoc on binary files. You can either invoke kermit with kermit -xi which sets kermit into server mode (the 'x') and sets file type to binary (the 'i'), or run it with no parameters and do a 'set file type binary' before going to server mode. This is available in all the C-Kermit versions that I have used. (currently using 4E(070) 29 Jan 88) If you do download a text file while set to binary, the file will contain no carriage returns and the lines will trail across the screen like this. There is a program available at Simtel20 that will un-unixize these type files by adding the 's. I don't have my list handy so I can't tell you what it is called right off. hope this helps. david brown jdb@ncsc.arpa