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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
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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.