c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip) (09/16/90)
Help! My mac is connected to our UNIX mainframe via some sort of terminal concentrator, and none of the communication methods for file transfers and email that I have used successfully on direct connections work. (1) Zterm fails (crc errors) (2) Binary Kermit fails (3) Macput, macget, macbput, and other forms of xmodem fail (4) UUPC fails (with the error message "bad header") My *conjecture* is that the failure is due to some 7-bit connection somewhere along the way. Another possible problem are the irritating ^S/^Q Xoff/Xon characters that these lines seem to have. Is this a good guess? Can anyone point me to utilities that *will* work in this environment? Any suggestions greatfully appreciated. Thanks! --Walter _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter Carlip **** c3ar@finite.chi.il.us **** (the "3" is invisible) **** c3ar%finite.chi.il.us@gargoyle.uchicago.edu **** _____________________________________________________________________________
stui@caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) (09/17/90)
In article <1990Sep16.020025.22749@midway.uchicago.edu>, c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip) writes: | My *conjecture* is that the failure is due to some 7-bit connection | somewhere along the way. Another possible problem are the irritating | ^S/^Q Xoff/Xon characters that these lines seem to have. Is this a good | guess? Can anyone point me to utilities that *will* work in this environment? | Any suggestions greatfully appreciated. Thanks! MacUUPC is only capable of handling 8 bit wide data paths (as I believe is the PC version also). This is a limitation of UUPC. Look toward getting yourself set up with a nicer uucico engine. For awhile I was running SoftPC and the uucico engine that came with the PC BBS system called Waffle (didn't run the BBS at all, just the protocol handler, and used QUED/M scripts to hand craft spool files). uAccess (was aka uMail), soon to be released, works just fine with my 7 bit mail server. | --Walter Stu. -- stui@caladan.uucp stui@caladan.wa.com