dwright@gara.une.oz.au ( HIST) (11/17/90)
I have a problem using my Amstrad IBM portable's communication package Mirror. I have transferred ASCII files 100s of times, but have failed in my attempt to download a .COM (binary, I guess) program. Having been a good boy and read the instructions about FTP on the net, I gather I am not giving the correct Receive File instruction through Mirror, but the documentation in the manual does not seem to help. (Alternatively, I may be a little thick....) If anyone out there using Mirror has transferred program files successfully, would you mind telling me the command sequence? I have PROGRAM.COM on my mainframe directory. To get it to my PC, I've been typing kermit -s PROGRAM.COM at the prompt, getting the signal to receive through MIRROR, but of course, if I use the command RK, it will simply come over as text. It *looks* OK, but it won't run (not surprising!) So, how? Any advice gratefully received. Denis Wright dwright@gara.une.oz.au
jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) (11/19/90)
In article <4712@gara.une.oz.au> dwright@gara.une.oz.au ( HIST) writes: >I have a problem using my Amstrad IBM portable's communication >package Mirror. I have transferred ASCII files 100s of times, >but have failed in my attempt to download a .COM (binary, I guess) >program. Having been a good boy and read the instructions about >FTP on the net, I gather I am not giving the correct Receive File >instruction through Mirror, but the documentation in the manual >does not seem to help. (Alternatively, I may be a little thick....) > >If anyone out there using Mirror has transferred program files >successfully, would you mind telling me the command sequence? > >I have PROGRAM.COM on my mainframe directory. To get it to my >PC, I've been typing kermit -s PROGRAM.COM at the prompt, >getting the signal to receive through MIRROR, but of course, >if I use the command RK, it will simply come over as text. It ^^^^ >*looks* OK, but it won't run (not surprising!) > >So, how? > >Any advice gratefully received. > >Denis Wright >dwright@gara.une.oz.au Kermit generally has two file transfer modes; BINARY and TEXT. Most comm packages allow you to specify a default mode. I generally specify BINARY as the default mode primarily because you can send either text of binary files under BINARY but TEXT mode trys to do some conversion of certain characters (particularly, CR -> CR/NL and vice versa depending on the computers involved.) I'm not familiar with MIRROR, but if it has a full KERMIT implementation you *should* be able to set the file transfer mode Good Luck John Burton (jcburt@cs.wm.edu) (jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov)
finfrock@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Scott Finfrock) (11/20/90)
In article <4712@gara.une.oz.au> dwright@gara.une.oz.au ( HIST) writes: >I have a problem using my Amstrad IBM portable's communication >package Mirror. I have transferred ASCII files 100s of times, >but have failed in my attempt to download a .COM (binary, I guess) >program. Having been a good boy and read the instructions about >FTP on the net, I gather I am not giving the correct Receive File >instruction through Mirror, but the documentation in the manual >does not seem to help. (Alternatively, I may be a little thick....) > >If anyone out there using Mirror has transferred program files >successfully, would you mind telling me the command sequence? > As I recall the communications package that came with my (prometheus) modem was called Mirror. I eventually dumped it because I had so many problems with it. Now I use straight Mskermit on my pc. A previous poster mentioned setting the binary mode switch and that should work. If it doesn't an alternative would be to uuencode the file on the mainframe, send it over as text, and then uudecode it on the pc. -- -Scott Finfrock- My E-mail address is: finfrock@ncis.tis.llnl.gov But actually I'm in: Richland, Washington
valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) (11/26/90)
To send binary files with kermit, use the -i option, e.g., kermit -i -s foo