Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!ra!chyde!ts From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 TROUBLES Message-ID: <801@chyde.uwasa.fi> Date: 28 Sep 89 21:20:20 GMT References: <120800007@silver> Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 41 In article <120800007@silver> sl179060@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes: >program and I declare myself to be an anonymous user. I follow this >procedure: > >%ftp simtel20.arpa >.... sign off message ....... ... stuff deleted ... >ftp>quit >%ftp 129.79.101.146 {my workstation} >ftp>send gmovie.arc I can always be mistaken, but as far as I could see there was nothing wrong in your simtel procedure, but I think you have failed to move the file correctly to your PC. In getting the file from your workstation you have omitted the all-important command: binary. Here at the University of Vaasa we run an ftp system as well, and the experience here is the same as I know Simtel20 maintainer Keith Petersen must have: A great majority of problems in transferring files from ftp sites is NOT in the transfer between the ftp site and the user's mainframe (or workstation) but in errors in transferring from the user's mainframe to the users PC. Two errors are particularly common: 1) Forgetting to set the file type binary (this was your problem most probably). 2) Failing to set the parity correctly at *each* end of the user's mainframe <--> PC. Eg in kermit setting the parity even at each end usually helps. ----- Keith, if you are reading this message. Should you and I consider preparing an automated reply-message to these queries, because this same question comes up so often? ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun