Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ml27192 From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: ftp, binhex & "Unexpected EOF" errors? Keywords: stuffit binhex ftp Message-ID: <1991May23.192907.20229@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 23 May 91 19:29:07 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 16 kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes: >first time was an instance of the above problem). Today, i tried to >unbinhex 6 parts of the Nisus updater which were _mailed_ to me [no >chance of an ftp problem here???] and _all six_ had an unexpected >eof... yas, i did strip off the mail header & tried again...but no luck Well here's your problem. You have to catenate the six parts and _then_ unbinhex them. Why unbinhexers don't do this automatically I don't know, but if they want a whole file and you give them part 1 only, you'll definitely get an EOF. -- //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Lanett ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu Software Tools Group, NCSA mlanett@ncsa.uiuc.edu I'm not an idiot; I just play one on the net.