Re: Getting files from Caltech

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32c1d02c.8753299@news.emi.com>,
Edhel Iaur, Esq. <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
>>   1) Did you transfer in BINARY mode at each and every step?
>Yes.
>>   2) What else are you doing?
>Looking at the following disconcerting message at the start of any and
>all files I d/lfrom there:

>(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

   Very odd. Should not be showing up.

>>If you want us to help with downloading
>>problems, you must be *far* more specific-- which programs are you using
>>to get the file from Caltech,

>WS_FTP LE, 32-bit edition, version 4.01, by IpSwitch.  I got this
>program from www.tucows.com (Russian mirror).

   Remind me sometime this weekend to install one of the WS_FTP
versions on my Win95 box at work and see if the same thing happens. If
so, apple2.caltech.edu's ftp server may need some tweaking. [Couldn't
connect just now to do a trial download to visi.com and see what
happens to files.]

Nathan Mates
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