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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: W A R N I N G  compress & ftp can corrupt hp48 bin files
Message-ID: <1570010@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 19:26:02 GMT
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In comp.sys.handhelds, 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.

     Perhaps, if you posted a very detailed, nitty-gritty, step-by-step,
description of *everything* that you did, we could figure out what is
happening.  At the Unix end, use the script(1) command and post the
output here.

     -- Darryl ("I don't believe it.") Okahata
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