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From: pfratar@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Paul Frattaroli - DCS)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files
Message-ID: <324@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 14:25:18 GMT
References: <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu> <35180011@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: pfratar@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Paul Frattaroli - DCS)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <35180011@hpindda.HP.COM> hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) writes:
>
>Don't know if this will help anyone, but I have noticed that SIMTEL archives
>appear to be corrupted when I uudecode them using one of the scripts that

WHAT??
	You shouldn't have to uudecode anything you get off of Simtel.
Just dearchive, using      arc -x [file]

>was posted here a while back for decoding multi-part submissions.  The symptom
>is that the decoding appears to work but the failure is on the dearchiving
>step.  When I put the parts together by hand (i.e., using vi), stripping off
>all the extraneous stuff, and then run the single piece through uudecode,

If a single part uudecodes, then you don't need to concatenate them together
in the first place.  If all the parts need to concatenated together,
then uudecode will complain about a short file when you try to decode a
single part.

>the dearchiving step works fine.  I haven't the expertise in script writing,
>nor the time, to debug this.  The decoding script works fine for stuff from
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc, however.
>
>John Hardin
>------------

Also, multiple part archives from Simtel don't need to be concatenated 
together.  Each are separate stand alone archives.

....Paul F
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