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From: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files
Keywords: Arc, simtel
Message-ID: <5439@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 89 04:19:11 GMT
References: <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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One Item Prof. Salmi didn't mention, is the case of using LISTSERV.  If you
request archives from a LISTSERV server, or download from the binaries 
newsgroup, the file is usually split into pieces after it is uuencoded for
transmission. You must save each of these pieces in a separate file and
remove the headers (up to the "cut here" lines). You must then concatenate
all the pieces togeather before uudecoding.  If you don't remove the headers
and just save all the pieces to one file, you will have CRC errors in the
archive.

Believe me, I speak from experience!


Reply-To: simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons)
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