Re: PC to Prodos Disk...problems

[macfan@earthlink.net (Bill Brown)]

>
>Usually, when I'm transferring files using ProTERM on the IIGS and
>using the zmodem protocol, I use binary transfers.  Binary keeps
>the files exactly the same as they come across from my shell
>account to my IIGS.

The protocol on Proterm is Xmodem (dos)
I'm using Boyan as the terminal software on the pc notebook.
Default file type is BIN

Again, Nulib sees the file, and the file titles...

once transferred, shrinkit only sees the file lengths, type, creation date, 
etc....no file titles, 
when tagged to unshrink, "file corrupted" is the error message.

Is there another setting in Proterm, other than the default file type that 
would alleviate this problem?

also, 

when using some older versions of PKZIP on pc's, i've found that older 
versions sometimes do not unzip archives made with newer versions of PKZIP.

Would this be the same think with Shrinkit?

I don't have the apple in front of me, but I believe I'm using a version 2.x 
of shrinkit...

would this cause any problems with files found currently on ftp sites?


>
>You may have accidentally been transferring the files in text mode.
>This is a big no-no.  What happens is that ProTERM (or any other
>terminal) will start talking to the terminal on the PC.  ProTERM will
>say "hi, I'm on an Apple II, my end of line character is a CR" and
>the PC terminal would say "hi, I'm on a PC, my end of line characters
>are a CR plus a LF."  The two terms would then negotiate "we'll just
>convert all CR plus LFs to just CRs when transferring from PC to
>Apple II."  Now if your file was a text file, all would be well.  But if
>your file is an .shk file, this will totally mess it up!
>
>Others have said to transfer in binary in your web browser or ftp
>program.  But this alone is not enough.  You need to transfer in
>binary even from your PC to your Apple II.