ftp unix dos unix i m an new to this having found some files public to look into i ftp ed them to a system i have access to i then used kermit to transmit them via modem to my host computer a pc based file system i access internet through modem access to a university mainframe from the pc file server i pull the files to a disk and then pull them from disk to a sgi indigo the sgi is not networked yet when i try to uncompress and un tar the files they either come out as garbage or i get an error in the tar process about directories being invalid what i m wondering about is the transfer of unix files compressed binary ascii about multiple platforms my guess is that it is the copy to a dos disk that is screwing things up any help is appreciated bob
