GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) (02/01/88)
Has anyone out there managed to get a valid copy of MS-KERMIT 2.30 for the Rainbow from Columbia. If I FTP from CU20B I get a file whose lines end with LF, not CR/LF combinations as expected. If I request the same file from KERMSRV@CUVMA the BOO file fails the integrity test when I try to un-BOO it. Before writing to Columbia I wondered whether others have experienced problems or whether I'm doing something wrong. George P.S. For those who didn't read the recent posting, v2.30 is similar to v2.29c except that it also includes a simple script language facility.
klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) (02/03/88)
In article <8801312103.AA03513@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) writes: > > Has anyone out there managed to get a valid copy of MS-KERMIT 2.30 >for the Rainbow from Columbia. If I FTP from CU20B I get a file whose >lines end with LF, not CR/LF combinations as expected. If I request >the same file from KERMSRV@CUVMA the BOO file fails the integrity >test when I try to un-BOO it. Before writing to Columbia I wondered >whether others have experienced problems or whether I'm doing >something wrong. > By the time you read this, both the RAINBOW and GRiD versions of Kermit version 3.0 will be available on The Pot of Gold (1:109/483) for download from the communications file area. The phone number is 1-703-359-6549 (sorry, not 2400 baud yet). Kurt Reisler (703) 359-6100 ============================================================================ UNISIG Chairman, DECUS US Chapter | Hadron, Inc. ..{uunet|sundc|rlgvax|netxcom|decuac}!hadron!klr | 9990 Lee Highway Sysop, Fido 109/74 The Bear's Den (703) 671-0598 | Suite 481 Sysop, Fido 109/483 The Pot of Gold (703) 359-6549 | Fairfax, VA 22030 ============================================================================
SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU (Frank da Cruz) (02/03/88)
The .BOO file is a regular text file. When you try to FTP it from CU20B, you should have your FTP program set up for text files. From your message, it sounds like you're FTPing to a Unix system, which would explain why the lines end with LF rather than CRLF. Which is fine, because that's the text file format for Unix. Then when you download to the PC for unbooing, the LFs have to be converted back to CRLFs, the text-file line delimiter for MS-DOS. If you use Kermit to download, then make sure it's in text (not binary or image) mode, which is the default. In other words, if you're using Unix Kermit, don't include the -i switch on the command line, and don't give the command 'set file type binary'. If you're having trouble with a copy you got over BITNET from KERMSRV, that means that somewhere along the line, somebody's ASCII/EBCDIC translation tables are not "standard", i.e. they don't agree with what's listed in the IBM System/370 Reference Card. -------