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From: ski@dciem.UUCP (Dave Eaton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Uudecode wierdidities, ue 3.7 (from Turner*Imagen),etc.
Message-ID: <1949@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 09:21:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: dciem.1949
Posted: Thu Sep  4 09:21:34 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 11:33:55 EDT
References: <517@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: ski@dciem.UUCP (Dave Eaton)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
Lines: 33
Keywords: uudecode emacs ST kermit errors
Summary: 

In article <517@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) writes:

>Has anyone else successful uudecode anything and had it run on the ST?  What
>might I be screwing up?   The few binaries posted for the Amiga uudecoded
>fine on the Amiga and ran.  The unix binaries I've decoded also run fine.
>So you'd figure I could get an ST binary to run? No way!

I just finished putting together uniterm.prg, uudecoding it on an 11/70
running UNIX v7, and transferring it to my ST using Xmodem.  Simon
Poole was decent enough to indicate how many bytes to expect in the
uudecoded version, consequently I was able to check that the uudecoded
version was the correct size.  When I looked at the Xmodem transferred
version on the ST it was 16 bytes larger.  I obtained a hex dump of the
beginning and end of the uudecoded version and compared it to the 
version on my ST and found that there were extra characters at the
end of the program.  After editing these out using H&D's Tool Box,
uniterm.prg worked fine. 

My success with program transfers has been varied.  This is the first time
I was able to recover from what I thought was a failed transmission.
The next time it happens I will certainly check the byte totals on both
machines.  It was nice to have the actual byte total to check whether
the posting arrived on our 11/70 successfully.  I hope future postings
include this feature.


Dave Eaton

D.C.I.E.M.
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA

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