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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
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Subject: Bug in Kermit?
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Brian Tao writes:
 >     Is anyone familiar enough with C-Kermit to know what this user is
 > talking about?  It sounds like Kermit is adding/stripping some sort of
 > file header.
 > 
It's highly likely that you are running your kermit in text mode
(which is the default) instead of binary (image) mode. Try starting
the server as kermit -xi or the send as kermit -si instead of without
the 'i'. Putting 'set fil typ bin' in your .kermrc also makes similar
effect.

Pete

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