dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff) (04/19/86)
I have been trying to use the program macbin to simplify my file transfer process, but have had no luck in getting it to work properly. I take a file from net.sources.mac and run it through xbin, producing the three files .info, .rsrc, and .data. I then run them through macbin, which presumably combines them all into one big file. So far so good. When I try to download this file to my mac, however, I have problems. Most of the time I use Red Rider on my Mac. I have tried version 7.? and now version 8.0 with no luck. I have also tried Freeterm 1.8(?). All of these programs are supposed to be able to recognize a file in binary format. RR, in fact, puts up a message saying that it is receiving a binary file. On the Unix end, I have tried kermit, sb, umodem and xmodem. The file arrives on my mac and usually has an icon and everything, but it never "works". Macwrite files are unreadable, programs always bomb. The only other sign that anything else is wrong is that at the beginning of the transfer, RR seems to "skip over" the first few blocks. That is, the counter counts quickly up to about five or so. At the end the counter goes past where it should. At the very end of the receive process it will say "block #201 of 195" or something like that. Can someone tell me a configuration (Unix program, Mac program) that works? Thanks.
abulloch@violet.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (/violet_b/abulloch) (04/23/86)
In article <225@mit-vax.UUCP> dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff) writes: >I have been trying to use the program macbin to simplify my file >transfer process, but have had no luck in getting it to work properly. > >I take a file from net.sources.mac and run it through xbin, producing >the three files .info, .rsrc, and .data. I then run them through >macbin, which presumably combines them all into one big file. So far >so good. When I try to download this file to my mac, however, I have >problems. Most of the time I use Red Rider on my Mac. I have tried >version 7.? and now version 8.0 with no luck. I have also tried >Freeterm 1.8(?). All of these programs are supposed to be able to >recognize a file in binary format. RR, in fact, puts up a message >saying that it is receiving a binary file. On the Unix end, I have >tried kermit, sb, umodem and xmodem. > >The file arrives on my mac and usually has an icon and everything, but >it never "works". Macwrite files are unreadable, programs always >bomb. The only other sign that anything else is wrong is that at the >beginning of the transfer, RR seems to "skip over" the first few >blocks. That is, the counter counts quickly up to about five or so. >At the end the counter goes past where it should. At the very end of >the receive process it will say "block #201 of 195" or something like >that. > >Can someone tell me a configuration (Unix program, Mac program) that >works? Thanks. Don't do any xbin-ing on Unix. If you are using RR, invoke kermit s on Unix and use the kermit-receive mode on RR; then (for almost all files) use Binhex 4.0 (for some items you will then also need Packit II). For short files you can read through them on the screen, then select the text using the mouse-and-cursor, Copy (under the Edit menu) and Paste into a Mockwrite file (having Mockwrite handy as a D/A lets you do things with texts at your end while still on line). RR won't work with Unix' u(/x)modem (you need MacTerminal for that), but kermit is just fine. Good luck. Anthony Bulloch Dept. of Classics UCBerkeley Ca. 94720 (415)-642-4218 abulloch@ucbviolet.berkeley.edu