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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Uploading Help -Clueless Newbie
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:15:17 GMT
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macdu139 (macdu139@iastate.edu) wrote:
>     I uploaded this game (called "Cheater"--it's sort of in the 
> tradition of "Undo) last week using Netscape on a Macintosh.  
> Unfortunately, it somehow became garbled in transmission -- it seems 
> to crash computers it runs on, although the original z-file works 
> perfectly.  I haven't a clue what I did wrong. 

Assume that Netscape was written by Satan, and find a copy of Fetch 
instead. (It's a freeware FTP client.) Then use it to upload your game 
file, using "raw data" or "binary" mode. (Not "MacBinary", just binary.)

--Z

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