archbold@bluemoon.uucp (Archie Jaszcz) (03/20/91)
Hi Netters!
Recently I've had some problems with the FTP stuff, and I want to
share them with you, to check if anybody had similar problems. Perhaps w
we can find a solution to mine.
I have an account on a VAX at OSU where I do most of my school
related computer work on a VAXstation. Of course that VAX allows me to
use FTP. The problem with using it is that it writes on High Density
disks which my 1040ST doesn't know how to read. Fortunately at OSU there
are many FTP sites, and one of them has an IBM that can write on 3.5" high
and double density disks. That's where I would usually go to do my
FTP'ing. Nowadays when I try to reach atari.archive the program tells me
that sites can be reached only from recognized machines (whatever that
means). Although the machine won't let me connect to atari.archive, it
WILL let me connect with my local VAX. So, I started d/l stuff from atari
.archive using my VAX and then d/l stuff from the VAX to my disks via the
IBM machine.
It's all nice and sweet, except that none of the programs and
pictures I d/led work on my ST! To do transfers I used the IMAGE type (in
both to and from VAX), so everything should be OK...
This thing gets even wierder: today, after all the downloading
and running back and forth between buildings during finals week, I brought
a disk full of spectrum pics and dskfonts.arc. Tried to display the spc
pictures from desktop (I have a spectrum viewing program installed as
desktop application), and only two of the pictures would work. Then after
viewing them once, they wouldn't load! The program would abort saying the
format is wrong! BUT THEY LOADED ONCE, and I'VE SEEN THEM WITH MY VERY
EYEZ!!!
This makes me believe the problem might lie somewhere in that IBMs
format, but that doesn't seem probable...
So, what do you think? Either mail me, or post if you think it
would enhance discussion on the net...