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From: bmarsh@noscvax.UUCP (William C. Marsh)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: help needed about DOSAMATIC
Message-ID: <220@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 11:20:33 EST
Article-I.D.: noscvax.220
Posted: Thu Feb 20 11:20:33 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 05:32:23 EST
References: <1227@princeton.UUCP>
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Summary: Postnews causing problems uudecoding dosamatic

In article <1227@princeton.UUCP>, wei@princeton.UUCP (P Wei) writes:
> I downloaded the dosamatic for ibmpc from the net.sources a few weeks ago.
> After cutting off the lines before #---cut here--- line in the uuencoded
> files 1 and 2, I 'cat 2 >> 1' then run the 'sh 1'.
> After transfering the exe file to ibmpc AT (dos 3.0), I tried to run it.
> I got the Turbo-Pascal run time error message FF ( which means heap/stack
> collision).    Can anyone tell me what went wrong ?  ( I used the supplied
> ibmmono.bat to run it).
> Or can someone near Princeton send me the two uuencoded files ?
> Thanks.
> HP Wei  (wei@princeton)
> 
> PS: The run time error happened the second time. The first
> time the ibmmono.bat simply returned to dos. The third time the machine
> was stuck and had to soft reboot.

The problem uudecoding dosamatic (and arc, for that matter) is that postnews
adds some blank lines to the end of each article.  These lines have to be
deleted before joining the two halves of the shar file together.  I have
succesfully downloaded both dosamatic and arc500 from the postings on this
newsgroup.  My suggestion for future postings of this type are to split
the uuencoded file BEFORE sharing it, then sharing each piece as separate
files.  The two files could be combined using cat, then uudecoded.

I'm surprised uudecode didn't complain.  Maybe it doesn't do any type
of crc or error checking.

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Bill Marsh, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
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