Rod, at 19:06 on Thu, Feb 23 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

JG> The transfer died with the usual message.

BG> I wonder if it's that specific file itself (can't imagine why
BG> though).  Have you tried sending anything else?

RS> Yeah, well worth trying. 

I'd assumed he had, but as mail packets are seen no differently from any
other archive, I was looking at something with the config.

RS> It can be a file which has +++ in it after compression and a modem 
RS> which is so fucked that it just obeys it and drops into command 
RS> mode.

Yeah, it's almost certain to be something like that, and I'd even be
inclined to repack the archive in an uncompressed zip file (for ease of
transfer), and see how that went.  My bet is that it'd work fine.

Regards, Bill

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