#UnSqueeze et al
02-Mar-86 23:09:27
Sb: #10138-#UnSqueeze et al
Fm: Joe Miller 70007,546
To: Bela Lubkin/Sysop 76703,3015
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Bela,
That's not a bug… The number in parens _does_ represent the actual
number of bytes transmitted during the <binary> download. It doesn't represent
the resulting file size because (for the A and B protocols) all characters less
than $20 are actually sent as the two byte pair: DLE ($10) followed by (char
.or. $40). So, even if the file was uploaded with XMODEM (which doesn't use
this "transparency" character), the binary file size is shown this way. It
will always show the actual file size _plus_ the number of control characters
in the file.