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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Decoded Net files
Message-ID: <22004@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Sep 89 07:08:32 GMT
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Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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John Stiborek  in North Texas asks about errors in UUENCODED files he's
received...
 
It shouldn't matter what kind of computer does the transferring (VAX, IBM or
whatever) since the whole point of UUENCODING is to convert a binary file int
a standard ASCII text file that can be transferred by ANY machine, over ANY
network...
 
However, since there is NO error checking provided during an ASCII transfer,
it's possible (or even likely in this case) that line noise has corrupted the
lines that give the errors... each line DOES have a checksum attached to it,
so that even though you won't be told about it at the time of the transfer,
you'll be notified of any errors when you try to unencode the file.
 
The only real solution is to keep trying the transfer until you get a good
one...  if you can find a different path to access the other computer, that
might help...  or as a last resort, send him a disk through the U.S. Snail..
 
BobR