| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I can't seem to unZOO any archives from tape::user5:[amiga].
Everything I've tried downloads fine but I get errors from ZOO when
trying to unpack the file. Is there somthing I don't know about?
Any help would be appreciated.
ART
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3764.1 | What KIND of errors? | DECWET::DAVIS | Mark Davis 206.865.8749 | Wed May 09 1990 12:52 | 1 |
What do the errors say? | |||||
| 3764.2 | KERMIT considered harmful | DEMOAX::MCKENDRY | Nasty, Brutish, and Short | Thu May 10 1990 13:56 | 25 |
I don't know whether this will be relevant to your problem, but I've encountered two different kinds of errors in moving .ZOO archives from TAPE:: to my Amiga. Both are soluble. The way I do it is to copy (DCL Copy) the files from TAPE:: to a VAXStation in my office in Providence, copy those copies onto a TK50, carry the TK50 home and put it onto a VAXStation there, copy from the TK50 onto disk, and finally copy the archives to the Amiga. Your path is probably different, but I've discovered these things: First, it's best to copy the archives to the TK50 using BACKUP rather than COPY. Files copied to and from the TK50 using COPY sometimes (not always) show up as corrupted to VMSZOO. Second, and this may be related to the problems you're having, KERMIT does not transfer the archives correctly. At least, the version of KERMIT I have (V3.3.117) doesn't. XMODEM works, but be sure to specify image mode on the send command. And Checksum rather than CRC on the Receive. I use VMS XMODEM.EXE from TAPE::USER2:[AMIGA.TOOLS] and the XMODEM feature of VLTjr on the Amiga. I don't remember whether it was necessary to select no translation, but it wouldn't hurt. -John | |||||
| 3764.3 | Kermit is OK if... | CLO::COBURN | Growing older, but not up... | Fri May 11 1990 11:45 | 14 |
Re: .2
Kermit in and of itself is not 'harmful' - slow maybe but it does work.
The problem may be that the ZOO files on TAPE (at least most of them)
are in the STREAM_LF format. Kermit chokes rather badly on them. They
should be converted to Variable length (or Fixed Length) records. The
program CVTARC will do this for you.
The other option (or better) is to get a terminal emulator that
supports ZMODEM and use it to download the files. It is much faster
than Kermit (and XMODEM as well).
John
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| 3764.4 | WELSWS::FINNIS | Tue May 15 1990 11:05 | 11 | ||
It's User2 not User5 !!!!
copy zoo file to your directory then unzoo it
- Pet -
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