Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk!gtoal From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Bad files from info-server? Message-ID: <9106302009.AA09493@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 30 Jun 91 20:09:46 GMT References: <11369@castle.ed.ac.uk> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn Organization: Unix Anarchy, Edinburgh University. Lines: 16 In article kelvin@thed.uk22.bull.com (Kelvin Hill) writes: :In any Sparkive I would expect to see a fairly even spread of all binary :values present, otherwise the compression is not doing the full job. :If there is one particular binary value missing, then it's a reasonable :assumption that somewhere, something has selectively stripped that value out. :For example, a DOS to UNIX file conversion/file transfer could have done it. :There are lots of LFs in the files, but not one single CR... comments? I think you've nailed it. I suspect someone has kermitted the file to their net machine without setting binary mode. Moral: always encode your files *before* they leave your machine. Just out of interest, which program was it? Maybe the author could re-send it? Graham