Help with Uploading

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Why can't I upload anything?

(This help file is concerned with NON-slip/ppp connections.)

Uploads on AFN fail usually for one of three reasons:

1. you are using a software handshake (often indicated by ^S and ^Q popping up randomly),
2. you are using a dialup line in some other mode than 8 data bits, no parity bit, and 1 stop bit,
3. or that you have remotely logged in without setting 8 bit mode.

What you need to do is first check your software settings. You must use 8 bits, no parity bit, and one stop bit in your telecomm software. You should use, if at all possible, a hardware handshake (ie, turn off XON/XOFF or software flow control).

If you are not dialing a Alachua FreeNet phone, but another machine, you must make sure that whenever you login into Alachua FreeNet, you are preserving an 8 bit connection. Typically, this means that use rlogin like
rlogin freenet.scri.fsu.edu -8;
use telnet something like
telnet -b freenet.scri.fsu.edu.

Remember that unix files are case sensitive, and that ymodem and zmodem take the name of the source file when uploading. Even though the upload program asks for the filename, it is ignored. So you will find the filenames in UPPER CASE if they are uploaded from a computer using the MS-DOS/PC-DOS operating system.

If you have problems with uploads, please attend one of the classes.

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