Re: PC to Prodos Disk...problems

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

Bill Brown wrote:

> >
> >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?

Your problem may be Zmodem. Try a simpler protocal. Such as
Xmodem. The Apple Zmodem was not always compatable and
the PC version had a few varieties also. Sometimes they didn't
even work correctly between PC's. We had some problems with
this on our old BBS system.

Phoenyx