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- From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
- Subject: Re: transfers with tip
- Message-ID: <ntomczak.725164104@vega>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Dec22.165611.2328@dvorak.amd.com> <1992Dec23.080846.26104@urz.unibas.ch>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:28:24 GMT
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- frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec22.165611.2328@dvorak.amd.com> writes:
- >> Hi
- >>
- >> I've been using tip with my ZyXEL U-1496E for a couple weeks now and I have a
- >> question. Tip's UNIX to UNIX file transfer commands (~t and ~p I believe)
- >> only seem to work with ASCII files. If I want to transfer anything else with
- >> them I have to uuencode it. Am I missings something here, or is this just
- >the
- >> nature of the beast?
-
- >Quite correct. I don't beleive that you can get an 8bit clean connection with
- >either tip or cu. (I'm in need of such a thing, but for an AT&T SYSV3R2, which
- >means I need the sources...) This is what you need to pass binaries. Because
-
- Tip sources are available. Try to ask archie. I am not sure if there
- is a way to force tip into 8bit connection (it seems to me that it is).
- On rare occasions when I had to use it I was using instead tipx -
- tip with a built-in x/y/zmodem protocol. It required some hacking
- to support higher baud rates but it worked pretty well in general.
-
- Michal Jaegermann
- ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
-
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