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From: kammerdi@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Troy Kammerdiener)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Problems using uudecode from starter kit
Keywords: uuencode, uudecode
Message-ID: <6148@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 09:39:12 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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A helpful net citizen put me in touch of an anonomous archive where I could
get copies of BISON and FLEX, many thanks.  I had a problem in porting to
my system however.  My file transfer protocol from university computer where
I have net access to my PC is Kermit, which seems to change binary files.  So
to get around the problem, I anonomous ftp'd from the source to my university
computer, then uuencoded the files (which were in ZIP format) and kermited
the uuencoded files to my system, where I applied the uudecode found in the
starter kit for this newsgroup.

This solution worked just fine for the BISON file.  When I tried to apply it
to the FLEX file, however, the uudecode on my system gave the message:

   End not found.

thus failing to decode the entire file.  I checked the uuencoded file, and it
has the standard begin (with the new filename) as well as the standard end
line.  Does anyone know what may be happening here, and how I can fix it?
Why would the BISON file (over 4 times as long!) work, and the FLEX file not?
The same methods and programs were used for each file.

				     Thanks,
				     Troy Kammerdiener
				     kammerdi@rex.cs.tulane.edu