Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!silver!sl179060 From: sl179060@silver.bacs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: SIMTEL20 TROUBLES Message-ID: <120800007@silver> Date: 28 Sep 89 17:11:00 GMT Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #N:silver:120800007:000:1221 Nf-From: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!sl179060 Sep 28 12:11:00 1989 I am having some problems down-loading software from SIMTEL20 and I hope someone can help me out.I am logged unto a VAX at IU (Ultrix). I am using telnet software and a ZENITH 286.I log into SIMTEL20 with the FTP program and I declare myself to be an anonymous user. I follow this procedure: %ftp simtel20.arpa ............ sign on message ...... username:anonymous password:{nothing} ............ login message ........ ftp>cd pd1:ftp>tenex {I have no idea what this does} ftp>get gmovie.arc ftp>bye .... sign off message ....... ftp>quit %ftp 129.79.101.146 {my workstation} ftp>send gmovie.arc ftp>quit %logout However when I try to run or unarchive any of the downloaded programs my PC hangs up. Some files which were supposed to be ASCII (eg. .PAS ) contain garbage. A few of the archived files did contain partly valid headers and my archive utility LARK displays the archive contents. When I invoke PKXARC or any of the other archive programs my machine crashes. This only happens when I ask the PKXARC progrom to unarchive the SIMTEL20 files. Does somebody out there know the procedure to download files from SIMTEL20 using the setup that I have. I am awaiting eagerly. Chima Echeruo.