wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (03/18/89)
In article <143@cs.columbia.edu> camargo@cs.columbia.edu (Francisco Camargo) writes: I found [some TSR utilities] in SIMTEL20.ARPA but when I down- loaded and "unarched" them, using PKXARC, I received messages saying "MARK.COM fails CRC test", "RELEASE fails CRC test", and so on. . . . I'm posting this message so that someone could verify what is wrong with the files in SIMTEL20, or maybe upload them again. Thanks to all of you. As far as I know, there is nothing wrong with these files on SIMTEL20. A more likely explanation for your difficulty is that you may not have set the correct data type for the FTP file transfer. SIMTEL20 is a DECsystem-20 (36-bit words). To retrieve binary files (such as ARC files), you need to specify a data type of "TYPE L 8". On most UNIX systems, you can do this by giving the command "tenex" to your FTP client process. If you try to specify a binary data type by saying "bin" -- or if you forget to change the initial default data type of "ascii" -- you will get garbled files. So, try FTP'ing the files again, this time being sure to say "tenex" before transferring anything. -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales "Now, drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby."