This shell utility is for up/downloading files via your ax25 unix login session which is managed by axspawn. you need a //BIN compatible axspawn, which has the functionality of making the stream 8bit compatible (normally the EOL-conversion <-> prevents this). see: http://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ampr/patches/linux-ax25/ The location of these sources is http://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ampr/axgetput/ Since 2006-12-10, axgetput is part of the ax25-tools (s. linux-ax25.org).