BEC.SHAPIN@USC-ECL.ARPA (07/12/84)
From: Ted Shapin <BEC.SHAPIN@USC-ECL.ARPA> One of our main requirements for micro to mainframe communication is to be able to archive programs on the large systems disks. This includes binary files that may be .COM, .EXE, .CMD and "squeezed" files. KERMIT for TOPS-20 only saves files as 7-bit ASCII, which loses the eigth bit. Under MS-DOS files can have a length that is not an even multiple of 128 bytes. MODEM loses because a file that is transferred up to the HOST and then back to the PC will be rounded up to the next even number of sectors. I know there are programs that will expand binary files to 7-bit files but I do not think that extra translation is a good solution. Comments? Ted.