| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon | 
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! | 
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON | 
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 | 
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 1433 | 
| Total number of notes: | 10312 | 
    Does anyone know if KERMIT mangles .ARC files.  I have lately copied
    various PD files located in the DEC system to my Atari using KERMIT. 
    When I go to dearc them, I get two bombs, bad header statements, etc. 
    I've moved the files using KERMIT in both TEXT and BINARY block type
    formats, however, makes no difference.  I'm stuck having to use KERMIT
    as recent changes to the modems on my cluster have eliminated the use
    of XMODEM protocols.  I have had no problems in the past when using
    XMODEM.  Any thoughts, suggestions....
    
    	Steve
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| 883.1 | Read XFERINTRO.TXT | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Thu May 31 1990 16:55 | 3 | 
| Have you read PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]XFERINTRO.TXT? Do so, and check the VMS file attributes, and perhaps try SET FILE TYPE BLOCK or run CVTARC over it. | |||||
| 883.2 | Try this | COMICS::DSMMGR | Fri Jun 01 1990 04:14 | 18 | |
|     On COMICS::$255$DUS9:[vaxdsm.st] are two files.
    
    KERMIT.COM
    WERMIT.EXE
    
    WERMIT is a copy of C-Kermit and KERMIT.COM is a simple frontend that
    I wrote to set up the WERMIT parameters necessary for transfer. Copy 
    the files to your account and run KERMIT.COM.
    
    I will ask for the name of the file you wish to transfer, invoke
    WERMIT.EXE and set things up ready for transfer. You can edit
    KERMIT.COM to vary things such as timeout etc.
    
    I have used it with good results every time.
    
    Hope it helps
    
    Jonathan
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| 883.3 | Ckermit also supports big block sizes | NORGE::CHAD | Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte | Fri Jun 01 1990 09:13 | 9 | 
| Also, with CKermit you can set block sizes to be 1000 and 2000 download and upload. Makes it go much faster. I may have gotten backward which direction is 1000 and which 2000 enabled. I've used Ckermit and UNITERM with great success. Or try Jeff's WHACK/STRANSF -- Also very quick. Chad | |||||
| 883.4 | Thanks | MPGS::RADOFF | Mon Jun 04 1990 08:55 | 4 | |
|     Thank you everyone.  All your suggestions assisted me with overcoming
    my problems.
    
    	Steve
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| 883.5 | large packets | UTRTSC::KNOPPERS | Oswald Knoppers | Tue Jun 05 1990 09:17 | 9 | 
| >Also, with CKermit you can set block sizes to be 1000 and 2000 download 
>and upload.  
    
    The current VMS kermit also has large packet sizes.
    
    BTW if I remember correctly you have to set the file type to 'FIXED'
    and not to 'BINARY' with VMS Kermit
    
    Oswald
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| 883.6 | BTOVT::BAGDY_M | METALGod in the making ! | Tue Apr 23 1991 06:13 | 36 | |
| 
        Rather than start a whole new topic, I decided to drop a note
        in here instead. . .
        
        Lately, I've been getting a few files off Terminator.  Two in
        specific are FLY_EX.LZH and  MONOPOOL.LZH  -  of which I also
        got  LHXARC.PRG (or was that  TTP  ?).    I  get  the  files,
        edit out the mail header and  router  notes  at  the  bottom,
        UUDECODE them, CVTARC them to `510 variable  length'  and use
        UNITERM V1.7 (which is all I have) to  take  `em  back to the
        ATARI.  Well, when I un-LZH them, I get  something  like  the
        following. . .
        
        Extracting from MONOPOOL.LZH
        Melting MONOPOOL.PRG߰}.................
        
        With those little extra characters (not exactly those though)
        at the  end of the file name.  Then, when I run the programs,
        I get two identical screens, side by side, of the same thing.
        The fly was flying  around TWICE, and I had two fly swatters.
        Um.  .  .what  am  I doing wrong ?  Any help would be greatly
        appreciated, since .ARC files are not  a problem.  Only those
        .LZH files.
        
        Oh, another thing, is that I copied  over  a  program  called
        GENESIS.TOS,  which is a Fractal Generator.  (Another  stupid
        question ?  Nah, I don't know about all  this  stuff yet, I'm
        still learning.  :^P) :^) What is a .TOS file  and  how  does
        one get it to run ?  Better yet, what don't  I  have included
        to get this to run.  When I tried to run it,  I  got  a quick
        blip  of four bombs and then the screen went back to the ICON
        screen.
        
        Thanks in advance for any/all help !
        
        Matt
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| 883.7 | Wrong res | UKCSSE::RDAVIES | I can't tryp for nots | Tue Apr 30 1991 07:32 | 4 | 
|     I too tried fly a while back, not worth the effort!. I think your
    problem is because it's a low res program that your running in med res.
    
    Richard
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| 883.8 | The things you learn. :^) | BTOVT::BAGDY_M | METALGod in the making ! | Tue Apr 30 1991 08:13 | 4 | 
| 
        Thanks Richard. . .I'll give it a try. . .
        
        Matt
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