U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) (09/12/90)
G'day, {I'm sorry to be YAWAXP (Yet Another Whiner About newXanth Programs) but this is for a friend. :-)} My friend (and I verified it for 1 program) has tried FTP'ing various unarced demos from newxanth recently with no success. I think that in all cases the files are exe's. After transfering to his(*) (and my in my(*) case) VAX the files are larger than they should be. A specific case is the file incoming/amiga/KEFRENS_VIII/PutTrax which enlarges by about 500 bytes (I suspect by about 512 bytes precisely .. I don't have the numbers here) after transfer. He doesn't have any trouble transferring .lzh and .z files. I verified that using TYPE IMAGE (and even TYPE LOGICAL-BYTE) file transfer modes did not fix the problem for the PutTrax file. Has anyone successfully downloaded non archived binary files from newxanth to a VAX system? Or even PutTrax as a specific case? What was your procedure? Please reply via e-mail. If I get some requests for a summary I will give one. Thanks in advance. yours truly, Lou Cavallo. (*) we don't own them. :-)