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From: stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BIGSCREEN question - same troubles ...
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Date: 24 Jun 89 01:16:27 GMT
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Reply-To: stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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To refresh everyone's memory this thread of conversation was about people
trying to uudecode BIGSCREEN and getting "short file" errors.

Well, since I'm new to "comp.sys.atari.st" and
"comp.binaries.atari.st" I had the same problems too.  I discovered
that the secret to decoding the arc files is to not use "uudecode" but
to use "uud" instead.  Apparantly, Atari users are using something
that performs a similar, but NOT COMPATIBLE function as the UNIX
uuencode/uudecode.  People like myself, who use IBM PC's and UNIX
workstations, are accustomed to using identical utilities on both
platforms.  Confusion results when someone says "use uudecode" to
decode an archive when they really mean "use uud".

Well, to sum up, now that I have "uud" and "uue" on my workstation I
have had no problems unpacking the first post of BIGSCREEN.

								stank

US Mail: Stan Kalinowski, Tektronix, Inc., Interactive Technologies Division
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