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From: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: How to load tetris2 HP48!!!!!!
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Date: 15 Mar 91 20:03:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
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>I don't think that's it, becasue there weren't any carriage returns. 
>Actually, I thought of that as a problem, but then discarded it because
>I've been posting those GROB's w/o carriage returns and it's been working
>all the time. I never even checked it actually, so that could have been
>it.  Well, no matter, check the posting where I ASC'd them.
>     ---Falco
>.'

Andrey,

I have had to remove line feeds from the PIC1 PIC2 GROBs for every
post of TETRIS that I have ever copied.  I suspect that they are
being inserted by the news software either at your end or at the
receiving end.  No matter, if they're present, remove them. If not
then don't worry about it.  :-)

Regarding posting TETRIS in ASC, I see your point.  Doubling the size
of the file via ASC is undesireable.  Still, anyone downloading TETRIS
obviously has a PC of sorts, and therefore should be able to make room
for TETRIS if they need to while they download the ASC string.  Given the
difficulties that people have been having with TETRIS2, it may be worth
considering.  

By the way, I may have come across a little strong in my last post
about the TETRIS2 update.  It was not my intent to flame, but to 
express my desire to eliminate the current fiasco involved with the
distribution of  software with long GROBs, machine language, and
stripped routines.  ASC is not an elegant solution, but it is certainly 
a simple one. 

I haven't tried downloading the update yet, but I suspect TETRIS2.1
will be a real winner!

>>>Joe