Date   : Mon, 06 Jun 1988 14:01:30 GMT
From   : cadnetix.COM!cadnetix!rusty@uunet.uu.net (Rusty)
Subject: Need help with Unix FTP & KERMIT

In article <2992@ut-emx.UUCP> cc.rob@ut-emx.UUCP (James P. Price) writes:
>Help!  They're getting rid of the TOPS-20 system here, and I need
>help....

If you are sending 8bit data, better check to be sure your modem (if it is
a 'smart' version which puts 2 uarts between your computer and the computer
you are modeming with) is set for 8 bits, as well as your comm program.

Otherwise, you would lose bit 7 (or 8, if you like counting bits from 1, or 0
if you count backwards) on EVERY byte.  Not bad for ascii, terrible for binary.

Of course, you could 'uuencode' it, assuming that is possible on the system
you are downloading from.  Procedure would be:  uuencode it on the host,
send it and capture locally (it is now 'only' ascii chars), uudecode it on
your machine.  But binary is much faster.
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