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#Downloaded Text Files

    24-Jan-87 10:26:51
Sb: #Downloaded Text Files
Fm: John Woomer 76012,2444
To: All
I know this subject has been discussed here before but I can't remember what was the out come of it all. My situation is this. I'm using Online! with a U.S. Robotic Courier 2400 modem. The "CR+LF" is set on and the word, parity, and stop options are set to 8,N,1. When I download a text file from my works VAX and do a TYPE <Filename> everything looks okay. If I do a ED <Filename> I get a "File Contains Binary" message. How can this be straightened out. Also another problem related more or less is if I try to upload a text file I either a message such as "out string to long" and the file does not get transferred. If I do get the file transferred it usually is one continous line unreadable. Is there an easy way to correct these problems? Thanks in advance for any help. One more thing I forgot to mention, I am using XMODEM as my file transfer protocol.