jdb@NCSC.ARPA.UUCP (06/03/88)
It sounds like you are running kermit on the unix machine with file type set to text. Since unix text format is a line of stuff<LF> when it is sent out by things like ftp, kermit, xmodem, etc. they insert a <CR> in front of the <LF>'s. This works fine for text files but wrecks havoc on binary files. You can either invoke kermit with kermit -xi which sets kermit into server mode (the 'x') and sets file type to binary (the 'i'), or run it with no parameters and do a 'set file type binary' before going to server mode. This is available in all the C-Kermit versions that I have used. (currently using 4E(070) 29 Jan 88) If you do download a text file while set to binary, the file will contain no carriage returns and the lines will trail across the screen like this. There is a program available at Simtel20 that will un-unixize these type files by adding the <CR>'s. I don't have my list handy so I can't tell you what it is called right off. hope this helps. david brown jdb@ncsc.arpa