Re: Getting files from Caltech

[ae198@lafn.org (leroy humphries)]

In a previous article, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) says:

>Edhel Iaur, Esq. (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
>: If the subject of this message hasn't annoyed everyone away already, I
>: would like to know if there's an article somewhere that has the
>: instructions for fixing those files from the caltech site.  Is it in
>: the site, or in the FAQ?
>
>Fixing?  I've never had any trouble with them.  Just be sure that you do
>BINARY transfers, so that the ^M's don't turn into ^J's or ^M^J's.  The
>files on Caltech are mostly Shrinkit archives, but they do not have the
>BINSCII armor that makes them impervious to corruption by
>too-smart-for-their-own-good transfer protocols.  Be sure to use binary
>transfers at every step of the transfer process, and you should have no
>problems.
>
>If you are working from an FTP shell prompt ("ftp>" or something like
>that), be sure to issue a "binary" command as follows:
>
>ftp>binary
>Type set to l
>ftp>
>
>before you GET the files.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Merry Christmas!
>--Dave Althoff, ][.
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Than can you tell me why my shrinkit program say everytime I try to 
unshrink  a file from here it doesn't recognize it.

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