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: In article <1995Jul15.235455@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Oleg
 Chetverikov) writes:
: > To John Harlan, or Kent Covert,
: > or someone who can help me out,
: >
: > I can not download binary files from VAX to my PC. I give "kermit -i"
 command to
: > start kermit, or I set the file type to binary while I am in Kermit in VAX.
 I
: > also set the transfer parameters to "binary" on my comm software. I check
 the
: > parameters by "show" command in VAX, and it says "binary fixed".  But the
: > strange thing is that it says "text" after I have downloaded. And the
: > downloaded file is corrupt.  I used Procom Plus and Kermit 3.14 and this
: > problem occurs in both cases. The funny thing is that it works fine with IBM
: > mainframe. No problem with downloading. I have being FTPing binary stuff to
 the
: > mainframe to download it, but I am sure something could be done to download
: > from the VAX. There are no problems with downloading text, just binaries.
: > Please explain what I am doing wrong.
: >                                            Oleg Chetverikov
: >                                            odchetve@miavx1
 
:       One of my users was complaining about the same thing
:       the other day.  He also said he explicitly typed
:       set file type binary on the VAX side, but didn't
:       have a similar setting on his non-kermit client
:       side.  The receiving side sets the transfer options,
:       right?
 
:       Anyway, I have not been able to reproduce the error
:       on my old version of procomm plus or version 3.14 of
:       mskermit.
 
Try SET FILE TYPE IMAGE on the VAX side of things.
 
John