Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Help with BITFTP Message-ID: <38166@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 06:50:35 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 33 In article <1990Dec3.230804.10903@pbs.org>, writes: >Rather than go into lengthy discussion of all the various methods I >have tried, without success, to transfer and use data on the Amiga, I shall >ask for suggestions and/or help from those with far more experience than >I have. > >A quick summary: I can "GET" a file through BITFTP, it is sent >UUENCODED. I can download files from the VAX to the Amiga using >XMODEM (among others). I have UUDECODE on the Amiga, but it tells >me that it cannot create "foobar.lzh" when asked to decode the >downloaded file as received from ABCFD20.LARC.NASA.GOV, for instance. I had exactly the same problem when using BITFTP from this VMS site. It seems the problem lays with the Amiga version of UUENCODE you and I are using. By comparing some uuencoded files that I could succesfully uudecode with the ones I got from BITFTP I found one obvious difference: the BITFTP files had an 'M' added to the end of every line of the file. I decided to remove all these M's from the end of the lines and presto!, the file was uudecoded fine. I was told that this extra M at the ending of each line is valid uuencode format, and that some versions of uuencode use it and others don't. Apparently, the Amiga version does not support this format, as I chokes on the file claiming there is a checksum error. To remove the M's I use MEmacs. I simply create a small macro to do the job and execute it times the number of lines in the program. Hope this helps! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paolo V. Troia | Universidad de Puerto Rico | // Amiga w_troia@upr1.upr.clu.edu | Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez | \X/ o nada! --------------------------------------------------------------------------