hitchen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Greg Hitchen) (02/13/91)
I am using a 386sx AT (msdos) and kermit to logon to a microvax III (4.3bsd). From the vax I am connecting via FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) and retrieving the file pk361.exe (self unpacking archive) onto the vax. From there I am using kermit to transfer pk361.exe to the PC. When I then type "pk361" ........... nothing happens! (and I then have to reboot the PC). Now my question is - should what I have done work? If not why? Is the problem in the FTP retrieve to the vax or the kermit transfer to the PC? Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be greatfully recieved. Greg -- Greg Hitchen, School of MPS | Internet: hitchen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au Murdoch University | Phone: +61 9 332 2102 (W) Murdoch WA 6150 | +61 9 354 1191 (H) Australia. | Fax: +61 9 310 1711
suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) (02/13/91)
hitchen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Greg Hitchen) writes:
Now my question is - should what I have done work? If not why? Is the
problem in the FTP retrieve to the vax or the kermit transfer to the PC?
Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be greatfully recieved.
While FTPing be sure you are using binary mode... and also while kermit
transfering...
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Opinions(?) are mine (if not stolen), NOT those of Univ. of Jyvaskyla.P.C.Steele@newcastle.ac.uk (P.C. Steele) (02/13/91)
hitchen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Greg Hitchen) writes: >I am using a 386sx AT (msdos) and kermit to logon to a microvax III (4.3bsd). >From the vax I am connecting via FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) >and retrieving the file pk361.exe (self unpacking archive) onto the vax. >From there I am using kermit to transfer pk361.exe to the PC. >When I then type "pk361" ........... nothing happens! (and I then have to >reboot the PC). >Now my question is - should what I have done work? If not why? Is the problem >in the FTP retrieve to the vax or the kermit transfer to the PC? >Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be greatfully recieved. It's only a little thing but when you connect to wuarchive.wustl.edu you are remembering to type 'tenex' or 'type binary' this forces a binary transfer otherwise all tansfers will be made as though the files were text files. Phillip Steele 2nd Year Micros Newcastle Uni.
gottlieb@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Robert Gottlieb; CMSC (UGRAD)) (02/15/91)
Another possibility could be when you do the download with kermit. You need to use the -i option for binary, so to send pk361 to your PC, you would need to type: kermit -i -s pk361.exe This along with ftping using binary as well should do the trick. Hope this helps. /* Robert Allen Gottlieb Internet: gottlieb@umbc5.umbc.edu */ /* Bitnet: gottlieb@umbc2.umbc.edu */ /* "It is better to be pissed off than pissed on." */ /* These opinions herein are not that of UMBC, but that of Jr, my cat, */ /* and me. */
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall) (02/15/91)
Once you've gotten the files, either you must force an 8-bit transfer
from VAX to MS-DOS or you have to UUENCODE or otherwise convert your 8-bit
files to 7-bit files so that you can tne UUDECODE them back to 8-bit. This
should work correctly, otherwise, you get problems such as you have
experienced already.
I have the same problems with our UNIX 7-bit kermit and VMS 7-bit kermit.
I just use UUENCODE on both.
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