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From: drv@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (dennis.r.vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Trouble With Arced Simtel20 Files
Message-ID: <2761@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 04:17:13 GMT
References: <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <8643.2572b0cb@ecs.umass.edu>, fritz@ecs.umass.edu writes:
> I have recently started downloading some files from the SIMTEL20 system.  The
> only problem is that when I download them and try to UN-ARC them...they all
> seem to have a CRC MISMATCH and the file is automatically marked corrupt.
>  
> -Brian Fritz

I, too, have noticed the same thing.  With a bit of experimenting I was
able to ascertain that the second last line of each uuencoded file that
I receive is always incorrect.  The last two lines are always:

 M
end

I always change the second last line so the file ends with:

`
end

and I get my uudecoded files to unarc successfully.  Now that I've
figured out what is wrong and how to fix it, would someone tell me
why it is this way in the first place?  An incompatibility between
two systems or networks perhaps?

Dennis R. Vogel
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lincroft, NJ