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From: fitzpatrick@obsess.dec.com (Dave FitzPatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple // System Utilities (was Re: Need Chameleon)
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Date: 22 Jun 89 17:11:02 GMT
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In article <18522@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>, ch1@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu
(Chris  Helferty) writes...
> 
>I've had some problems using the convert utility.  Particulary when
>converting the un-EXECed Kermit install program from ProDOS to DOS 3.3.
>...
>BUT!  If I use
>Chameleon to do the O/S transfer then I have no problem.  I've always
>figured it had to do with the way <CR>'s and <LF>'s were handled.  This
>particular Kermit example has happened before with other files, too.
> 
>				Jon M. Pearsall
>				NASA Industrial Applications Center
>                                University of Pittsburgh
Actually, it seems there is a bug in CONVERT that causes it to trash long
files, ie: files that are long enough to need more than one track/sector list.
It doesn't link the T/S lists properly, so the EXEC gets lost part way
through.
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   Dave FitzPatrick

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