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From: rk@cs.strath.ac.uk (Richard Kingslake)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files
Keywords: Arc, simtel
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Date: 6 Dec 89 10:40:07 GMT
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In article <5439@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> simmons@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (James Simmons) writes:
>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.
>

My copy of uudecode automatically removes headers etc and concatenates
files.  I simply hand it the name of the first file, un-doctored, and it
goes ahead and uudecodes the lot!  It is called:
UU-DECODE 3.07 BY RICHARD MARKS
and is *very* easy to use.  I recommend it.


	Richard Kingslake


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