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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zoo & gurus
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Date: 18 Mar 90 13:19:51 GMT
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In <491@attila.esa.oz>, robi@attila.esa.oz (RoBeRt KaRp) writes:
>I have an extremely roundabout way of transferring files from
>work (UNIX) to my amiga. I do the following:
>	1. I zoo the files on UNIX (bsd4.3)
>	2. I copy it to an IBM pc via a 9600 serial link
>	3. I copy it onto a 5.25" floppy disk
>	4. I take the disk home & copy it onto my IBM HD (did I mention
>	   I have a 2088 BridgeBoard with a hard disk, of which the Amiga is
>	   a partition ?)
>	5. I use awrite to transfer the zoo'd file.
>	6. I unzoo the file.

Ugh!

>Now, following these steps I took home Sksh and did a zoo l. This said
>that the file was corrupted, I don't know why yet, but I will find out !
>However I thought I'll be smart & attempt to extract it anyway. So I
>did a zoo x sksh.zoo, this caused the system to crash (guru #000000003.???)
>If anyone knows why, can they tell me please.

Are you using the /b option when you do the awrite? If not, that could be your
problem, though with all that transferring, it could be being munged elsewhere
in the chain.  Try a small file containing at least one of every byte value
that you can type the hex contents of and look at it at each step of the
process.

-larry

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