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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Blair MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: BITFTP/abcfd20 woes
In-Reply-To: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com's message of 26 Aug 90 20:48:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.031117.23543@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 03:11:17 GMT
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>>>>> On 26 Aug 90 20:48:15 GMT, dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis
>>>>> Francis Heffernan) said:


DFH> 	I seem to be 'having problems' getting goodies from The New
DFH> Xanth (Oz?  Narnia?) through the BITFTP server.  Namely, everything
DFH> comes up corrupt when I try to un-lharc it.

I got some stuff recently, and when I downloaded the lharc'd files to my
Amiga they were indeed corrupt.

BUT, if I un-lharc'd them, zoo'd them and then downloaded them, things
were ok.  I thought this was really wierd.  The only reason I tried it
is because I had un-lharc'd the files on my UNIX account to read the
docs before bothering to download them.

So, it would seem that there is some sort of inconsistency between the
lharc on UNIX and on the Amiga.  I've tried it with lharc 1.0 and lharc
1.2 that I got off the net recently.

What's even weirder is that this is the first time this has happened,
and that one of the three files I downloaded worked.

The files I experienced this with are

	gnuemacs_bin.lzh	<- didn't work
	gnuemacs_lisp.lzh	<- did work!
	gnuemacs_mylisp.lzh	<- not on abcfd20, I created it with the
				   lharc on my system.  Contained text
				   files.  I _didn't_ work!

Here is the banner for the lharc on Watcgl, our Unix system:
-----------
LHarc for UNIX  V0.03 (Beta Version)   Copyright(C) 1989  Y.Tagawa
usage: lharc {axevludmcp}[qnft] archive_file [files or directories...]
commands:               options:                                
 a   Append              q   quiet                              
 x,e EXtract             n   no execute                         
 v,l View/List           f   force (over write at extract)      
 u   Update newer files                                         
 d   Delete              t   FILES are TEXT file                
 m   Move                                                       
 c   re-Construct new archive                                   
 p   Print to STDOUT                                            
-----------

Could it be that this is the version that created these archives and
there is some incompatability with the other ones?

Note: yes, those lhz files do indeed contain GNU Emacs, the real thing,
beta version 0.1.   Of course, I can't get it to run ...

Blair
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