Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: COMPRESS - help (was ZOO.TTP help) Message-ID: <26890@cs.yale.edu> Date: 23 Oct 90 14:05:09 GMT References: <828.2722a0bb@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu In article <828.2722a0bb@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com writes: >Next question: When i uncompress .Z files (compress -d d:\file from Gulam), >everything appears to complete without error. However, when I try to run the >resulting program (after renaming with a .prg extender) I get a "TOS error >#35" which means "No handles left". This is the error you get when you try to run a bad .prg file. You can assume that you didn't manage to uncompress the file properly, or perhaps the .Z file got damaged in transmission. .Z files are binary and must be FTP'ed and Kermit'ed in binary mode. >steve@thelake.mn.org thought it was a TOS 1.0 problem. I don't want to >get the lastest TOS ($) just to see if it is the cause. Has anybody else >had this problem and what did you do to get around it? Is the new TOS ROM >worth the cost (and how much)? Yes, TOS 1.4 is worth the cost (about $100 list), not because it will fix this problem (it won't), but because it fixes so many other problems, particularly with regard to disk and memory usage. If you have a hard disk, either TOS 1.4 or a plethora of PD patch programs are a must, and the latter are a less satisfactory alternative that don't fix many of the bugs in TOS 1.0. >Last question: How do you combine multipart, binary .Z files to >decompress >them. I've tried "cat f1 f2 >>f3" from gulam but f3 always gets >smaller than >the starting files. Word perfect and First word also don't like >binary... I use the "cat" command of the Mark Williams C shell (msh). Sounds like gulum cat is assuming text files. You could write a simple cat program yourself if you have access to almost any programming language at all. Alternatively, why don't you cat them together on whatever machine you are using for the ftp? If it's a Unix machine, the same "cat" command you tried under gulam should work. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================