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From: jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: SPL Binary
Message-ID: <2534@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 22:56:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 29 22:56:10 1986
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References: <419@uwmacc.UUCP> <1154@tekigm2.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkg@gitpyr.UUCP (Jim Greenlee)
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In article <1154@tekigm2.UUCP> jimb@tekigm2.UUCP writes:
>In article <419@uwmacc.UUCP> anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:
>>Did anybody else pick up SPL from Dennis Baer (...!helm!dlbaer)?
>>[...] 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
>[...] had no problems.  I would recheck the initial building of the main file.

I also downloaded SPL and observed the above-mentioned blank lines. However,
I downloaded the UUencoded program and decoded it on my PC before unARCing
it. I used a word processor to strip all the lines (blanks included) and 
the DOS COPY command to "cat" the files. Encountered no problems with ARC.
I tried running a couple of the sample programs and all seems well. I have
had better luck downloading the UUencoded files than the binary ARC files.
Someone posted Turbo Pascal versions of UUdecode and UUencode a while back 
on net.sources if you don't have them.
                                             Jim Greenlee
-- 
The Shadow
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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