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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files via LISTSERV
Message-ID: <6297@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 89 16:01:40 GMT
References: <5439@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <5439@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>, by simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons):
> .....   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. .....  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!

I wrote a shell script to remove the "cut here" lines from uuencoded
pieces from the binaries newsgroup. It also verifies (before I
uudecode) that I have all the pieces, and creates a text file
containing the header of the first piece.  I used the same script on
the pieces from the LISTSERV server, and got errors in the archive.

WARNING: the "cut here" lines in the pieces from the server do not have
"cut here" in them!  The same automatic tools will not work without
modification!

Believe me, I speak from experience!

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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