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From: hamachi@KIM (Gordon Hamachi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: binhex/macterminal/macget bug?
Message-ID: <8510170947.AA22363@kim>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 05:47:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 05:47:41 1985
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As I've started to upload large programs to net-sources-mac I've consistently
encountered a problem:  at the very end of uploading a binhex-ed file with
macterminal -0.5 and macget the transfer bombs with error -39, and the upload
file is incomplete.  This is particularly distressing with larger files that
may take a half hour or more to upload at 1200 baud.  I have to do it all over
again!

I discovered that if I use a text editor to add a screenful of carriage
returns to the end of the file then I still get the error message but the
resulting uploaded file xbins correctly.

Could binhex 4.0 be guilty of incorrectly setting the logical EOF on the
upload file?  Is there some macget fix that I missed?

In any event I suggest that:

    1)  If you upload large files using binhex/macterminal/macget you
	should add some carriage returns to the end of the ascii upload
	file produced by binhex before uploading with macterminal and macget.

    2)  Always verify that the upload xbin's correctly before posting a
	program.

--Gordon Hamachi