Re: GEnie via Internet

[nraymond@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nathan Raymond (Phillips Academy 94))]

In a previous article, khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn) says:

>In article <33fpf9$6j0@louie.udel.edu>,
>Dave J. Roberts <droberts@chaos.bsu.edu> wrote:
>>	Woe to those who attempt binary transfers over telnet links ;)
>>You'll probably have a hell of a time downloading, and uploading will be
>>damn near impossible.
>
>Heh, I've tried downloading from GEnie through MERIT, and have had
>absolutely no success whatsoever :) When I set the connection to
>binary mode, GEnie never sees what I type :( And of course, transfers
>don't work correctly in ascii mode...

I'm pretty sure I have a program for the Mac that translates ascii transfers
(after the fact) into binary...

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