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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