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From: w8sdz@brl-tgr.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Posting sources that work
Message-ID: <2115@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 00:29:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2115
Posted: Mon Oct 14 00:29:37 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Oct-85 05:23:50 EDT
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl-tgr.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR) <w8sdz>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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Summary: Preventing errors in net.sources postings

It must certainly be possible with current technology to have
some automatic method of doing a checksum or crc check as one
"unshars".  I remember seeing some postings which did this until
someone complained that their version of Unix didn't have the
necessary checksum program.  It seems to me it would be a simple
matter to distribute such a program and require all net news sites
to make it available to users.  As things stand now, one never knows
for sure if the submitted files are complete.  I have had several
occasions recently where they were not.  They did not exceed the
64k limit, so that wasn't the problem. Maybe it was the old bug
where if a new line started with a "." it was taken as end-of-file.

--Keith Petersen
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Keith Petersen