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From: Metalist@cup.portal.com (Bryan Jones Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: zybex... it IS a bad d/l
Message-ID: <28375@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 23:28:21 GMT
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> If you download Zybex.uue using a different file, all is fine and it will
work nicely.  If you leave it ias
Zybex.uue when it is uudecoded your source fill will be overwritten.
 
Here's what I did:
 
a) Downloaded message via Xmodem and Bobterm converstion (shift-1 to convert
ascii --> atascii, in xmodem protocol).
 
b) NOTE: I downloaded it as "Rtype.uue" since someone said it looked like
Rtype, so my source file was not overwritten.
 
c) I uudecoded it. It said "file is bad"
d) I unarced it. It said "file FAILS crc check!"
  
 
Now I find it hard to believe that the error was line noise?? Xmodem is very
reliable.
 
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