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From: avenger@wpi.WPI.EDU (Samuel Joseph Pullara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: W A R N I N G  compress & ftp can corrupt hp48 bin files
Keywords: Ouch!
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.000130.24559@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 00:01:30 GMT
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In article <40717@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:
>I have to reply to this.  The files that got corupted worked before they
>were compressed/uncompressed and, wrt those that were ftp'ed, before they
>were ftp'ed.  Given that, I can only assume that the problem happened
>at the stages I said.  I have repeated this.
>-JimC
>--
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>rutgers!ub!cloos

The most obvious reason for this is that when you FTPed the files you had it
set to ascii and not binary, if compression doesn't mess up normal computer
files it certainly won't mess up files for the 48sx....

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