Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!okstate!chris From: chris@a.cs.okstate.edu (Chris Schuermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Is this a known kermit bug? Summary: Kermit oddity? Message-ID: <3627@okstate.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 13:59:08 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Lines: 33 And speaking of kermit... I believe I have run into a bug in the kermit protocol. This bug manifests itself when transfering 'ARCed' files. For those who don't use micros, this is a method to compress one or several files into and 'archive'. The archive software uses several different methods of compression depending on what the data looks like. Anyway, obviously these archives contain binary data. I have been using kermit (binary mode of course) to transfer these archives. Now here is the problem: About one file in twenty kermit corrupts! I have tried using several different versions of kermit on several different machines and have seen the same results. I am using an Amiga 1000 computer. I have tried the 'official' kermit release,and several PD software packages with kermit. I have talked to several different brands of micros running several defferent versions of kermit. Also several larger systems including VAXEN and Perkin Elmer machines. Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a string in the archives that is fooling the kermit protocol? I just don't understand what is happening... As of late I have started using XMODEM-CRC whenever kermit trashes a file and it will xfer it just fine.... Chris Schuermann Oklahoma State Univ. Electronics Research and Development Laboratory Department of Electronics and Computer Technology Department of Computing and Information Sciences Oklahoma State University UUCP: {cbosgd, ea, ihnp4, isucs1, mcvax, pesnta, uokvax}!okstate!chris Internet: chris@a.cs.okstate.edu