SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (04/10/89)
>Aside from the fact that IBM hosts only speak in 7 bit (mark or even parity), >they are EBCDIC - so there's no such thing as a "simple" xmodem type transfer >(that's why Kermit was invented in the first place!). Ah -- one *little?* thing I forgot to mention. IF you do try a BINARY transfer with Kermit to/from an IBM host, the host will NOT translate EBCDIC to ASCII !! If a file is uploaded as binary and sent from one IBM host to another (without an intervening ASCII gateway), then the file CAN be downloaded as binary (Dick Atlee sends me his Kermit-A2 from Maryland by that process). Unfortunately, if the file is uploaded as text, then the host translates ASCII to EBCDIC and only a text download will translate it back. That means if you are trying to use ProTerm 2.0's Kermit to download an BINSCII'd file from an IBM host, you won't be able to get around the bug by downloading in binary mode (cause what you'll get WON'T be ASCII). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246