madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) (11/01/90)
>> MS-KERMIT does NOT have a file type switch, so SET FILE TYPE BINARY is >> not a legal command. I suppose I shouldn't make that such a flat >> statement as I've only used MS-KERMIT through V2.32 (the one you supply) >> and haven't seen V3 yet. Kermit 3.00 and later does have the "set file type binary" command. However, it's only there because of new Kermit support for international character set translation. Previously (2.32/A and before) MS-Kermit never did translation since the text format used by all Kermit's is the same as the MS-DOS text format. Therefore there could be no distinction between text and binary files by MS-Kermit. With 3.00 and later, however, you can "set transfer character-set", and if you do, then there is a distinction between text and binary files. Then the "set file type binary" command can have an effect. Normally you don't mess with international character translation, so "set file type binary" has no effect if the transfer character set is the default (transparent). In general, if you need to do a "set file type binary", you need to do it on both ends, or on the non-PC end if a PC running MS-Kermit is involved. Mark Adler madler@piglet.caltech.edu