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From: jimb@tekigm2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: SPL Binary
Message-ID: <1154@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 13:19:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 13:19:39 1986
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Summary: recheck your sources


In article <419@uwmacc.UUCP> anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:
>Did anybody else pick up SPL from Dennis Baer (...!helm!dlbaer)?
>I did, and I'm having a problem I don't understand. I hope someone
>can help me with it. Baer distributed his program (binary) in
>five parts, posted to this newsgroup. I was interested, so I saved
>the parts, stripped the extra lines off the heads and tails of the
>parts, cat-ed them into one large file, fed that file to uudecode
>to obtain spllib.arc, transferred the .arc file 
>First try, I get one
>program partially un-arced (BLACKJAC.SP), then the error message
>ABORT: stack overflow. 
>   I was pretty careful about handling the 5-part postings and
>assembling then into one file to feed to uudecode.

You have to be careful when stripping the heads and tails.  I noticed that
there were three blank lines at the end of each file.  I removed them and
did not cat the files.  I instead use and editor which allows me to make
sure that there are no blank lines when I reassemble the file.  I put all
five parts together that way.  I ran through uudecode and used kermit in
the binary mode to put files on the pc.  I unarced them using arc.512
and had no problems.  I would recheck the initial building of the main file.