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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:50:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        maher@azstarnet.com (maher katbah)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cu on BSD
Message-ID:  <199508251250.OAA02123@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508250711.AAA28407@web.azstarnet.com> from "maher katbah" at Aug 25, 95 00:11:24 am

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As maher katbah wrote:
> 
> I have freeBSD on my machine, and I connect to internet provider through a
> modem by using cu.  The provider  is using sun solries in his machine. Now
> when I am trying to download a 2.97 MB file by using the ~t , or ~take I
> will receive   2.93MB file. After that if I want to gunzip it , I have
> "corrupt file"  message.

~take is not supposed to transfer binary files.  Use something like a
Z-Modem download instead (e.g. by starting ``sz file'' on the remote
system and then entering ``~+rz'').

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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