[comp.virus] FTP and .hqx

XRJDM@SCFVM.BITNET (Joe McMahon) (04/10/90)

Since I run through vast amounts of sw on various servers about the net,
and it always seems to work for me, try this:

1) ftp to whereever.
2) GET the file. No binary, no translate, zilch.
3) Transfer it up with Kermit.

My feeling is that you may be trashing the file by insisting on
transferring it as binary when it isn't. HQX format (as is used on the
FTP servers I know of) is ASCII only, designed not to get trashed by
character translations (e.g., EBCDIC to ASCII). Try not doing anything
but the transfer, and I think you'll find this will work.

 --- Joe M.