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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: trouble downloading from Simtel20
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Date: 18 Aug 89 18:54:01 GMT
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Reply-To: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers)
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I haven't been able to successfully download some files from the
Macintosh archives at Simtel.  I believe I followed the instructions
in the message that was posted telling how to use the archives, 
nevertheless, when I try unstuffing the transferred file, it gives me
a message about bad headers.  I have no trouble with ftp and tops-20
(apparently simtel20's file system) in general.  Can anybody help?

The details:  I'm trying to get the two inigo*.sit files in the hc
section.  I ftp there, set mode to tenex, then get the files.  Once on
our local Sun, I start up kermit and transfer them to the mac.  For
Mac transfer programs I've tried both kermit 9.4 and versaterm 3.10.
I have tried all permutations of binary and text mode on sender and
reciever.  A few permutations error out instead of transferring,
however, most transfer a file of the appropriate size but then can't
be unstuffed.  Stuffit 1.5.1 says the archive is bad, bad headers,
salvage what I can.  After clicking on that error message another
comes up saying unexpected eof.  Needless to say, nothing can be
extracted.

thanks,
Margot Flowers 
Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU 
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