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From: gmg@court.sybase.com (Gary Gibson)
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Subject: Re: Oids Demo: Anyone get it to work?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 23:12:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar8.014221.14351@momenta.com> tecot@momenta.com (Ed Tecot) writes:
>I had the same problem.  After Stuffit Deluxe failed, I decided to give
>Compact Pro a try (I had never used it before).  Compact Pro refused to
>decode the BinHex file.  I expect that some host along the path truncated
>or altered one of the parts.

I just downloaded the OIDS demo yesterday and decoded it with the BinHex
option of Stuffit Deluxe.  I had no problems with it.  Did you make sure
that you removed all of the headers and footers in each message?  Did you
also make sure you didn't delete any of the BinHex info while deleting
the headers and footers?  

I saved the messages to a non-mailbox file in order, and then edited the
resulting file with vi.  Using the search string "---", I carefully removed
the header and footer information.  You should do this manually though,
because some of the binhex information contains "---" too.  After, editing
the file.  I transferred it to my mac plus using microphone II's kermit
option.  It took about 40 minutes at 2400 baud, but once it downloaded,
I was able to decode it with the BinHex option of stuffit deluxe with
ease.