source vs binary

[Cosyn Bart]

On Thu, 18 Aug 1994, Rica Saporta wrote:

> 
> good day, again,
> as most of you have probably surrmized, i am no sys-op nor an expert in
> UNIX, but it has still fallen on me to install GRASS - an
> adventure i am looking forward to >:)
> 
> i would really appreciate some help on these two wuestions:
> 1) as suggested by many of you i ftp'd GohstView in the form
>    of the file gsview11.zip: here is the rub, what is a zip file?
>    I have tried moving the file to DOS and using PKUNZIP, which
>    is the only thing i could think of, but PKUNZIP dosen't
>    know what to do with the expanded files (litteraly) so it
>    aborts.  any thoughts (i didnt use UNCOMPRESS because its not
>    a .Z file)
Transferring files to a dos pc needs mentionning the format, so put while 
ftp'ing your format to binary and look for the volume of the file you 
transferred. I never had problems to uncompress afterwards by pkunzip. 
Try to get a new version of pkunzip. 

					Bart 
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