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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!crash!intergate.swc.cc.ca.us!intergate.swc.cc.ca.us!warelock From: warelock@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us (Tom Zacharoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Modem - Thanks! Date: 10 Feb 1994 06:23:04 GMT Organization: Southwestern College Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2jcjs8$19j@intergate.swc.cc.ca.us> References: <2ipmic$gqr@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] twallace@mason1.gmu.edu wrote: : Thanks to everyone who helped me get my modem up and working with my : NetBSD machine -- right now I am logged into my account at school with : my NetBSD machine and everything seems to be working OK! Wow! DOS-free! : OK, now for the next question. I was able to transfer text files using : the <tilde>t command in tip (this is the take function), but I cannot : figure out how to transfer binary files. If anyone out there is doing : this, please let me know how. : Thanks again! Why not just uuencode the binary file on the remote unix host and then use tip to get the file? I think I've done that before and it worked.