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From: king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Servers
Message-ID: <5954@orchid3.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 14:55:39 GMT
References: <1033.27783F09@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <1990Dec26.172922.17717@ericsson.se> <186ce17d.ARN253b@starsoft.UUCP> <1990Dec27.141152.8028@ericsson.se>
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In article <1990Dec27.141152.8028@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>[The editor] would be a very possible error source, if it wasn't that I get the
>same result if I don't edit the file at all. Now it looks more like a
>problem with Sun's mailtool here, but it has worked perfectly once (on
>HamSharp)...

I don't think I'd blame mailtool.  Love it or hate it, I've never had it
corrupt a file on me.  This includes mailtool running under SunOS 3.x and
under 4.x.

Try editting the file.  Just scan through it once, looking for defects.
Corruption is often easy to see and sometimes simple to correct, say if you've
got a blank line in there or something.

There's also an inconsistency somewhere along the lines with uuencode.  I've
noticed it primarily on uuencoded .lzh files, but it may occur with others.
Try converting all tildes "~" to carets "^" (or vice-versa).  This is one
form of "corruption" I've run into.  I think it might stem from ASCII <-->
EBCDIC conversions somewhere across the net.

Then again, this file may actually be unrepairably corrupted.  Sorry, you
lose.


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