Possible Zmodem bug?

Sun Visualization Products matthew at sunpix.UUCP
Fri Aug 4 01:40:24 AEST 1989


In article <1514 at cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Trevor Paquette writes:

   [text about Zmodem / Zoo file problems deleted. ]

Your problem, is what is termed 'automatic mode detection'.  If you do a:

od -c your.zoo | head

you'll see that zoo archives start, and are signafied by a text header.
This is causing Zmodem to select the '-a' mode.  Use the '-b' (binaries)
flag to override this and the problem should go away.


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