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From: rob@gould9.UUCP (rob)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: SPL Binary
Message-ID: <845@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 23:00:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 31 23:00:49 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Nov-86 19:42:36 EST
References: <419@uwmacc.UUCP>
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Organization: Gould CSD, San Diego
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Summary: spl trashed files

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 (kermit on the
> Unix Vax-11/780 (BSD 4.3), ProComm 2.4.2 Kermit on my PC-clone
> Z-158), and (on the PC) ran ARC51 on it. First try, I get one
> program partially un-arced (BLACKJAC.SP), then the error message
> ABORT: stack overflow. Hm, I think, try ARC's t option, which then
> yields: Archive truncated in file BLACKJAC.SP, One error detected.
>    Damn! Supposing I may have gotten an error during the Kermit
> step, I transfer the file again to a new disk [ugh, 31 minutes
> @ 2400 baud!]. Same result.
>    I was pretty careful about handling the 5-part postings and
> assembling then into one file to feed to uudecode.
>    Nevertheless, something could have happened at that step.
> However, if someone else got the same result I did, maybe the
> fault is in what was posted. 
>    If someone knows what I should do next (or even has suggestions),
> I'd appreciate some e-mail on that. ADVthanksANCE...
> -- 
> ==ARPA:====================anderson@unix.macc.wisc.edu===Jess Anderson======
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> ==Words are not just blown air. They have a meaning.=====(Chuang Tsu)=======
	O.K. I had to try this sol too,,, my copy which i downloaded 
twice showed manual,picture,and some other file as having bad sector 
info,,,,But The WORST part was I had to get a binary file from the 
WRONG!!!!! place, why can't people put thier files (binary) in net-       
.sources or in whatever category they belong in....I can only assume
from the posting and the defensiveness on the part of the poster that
he was an amateur and lacked proper netiquette....Well I suppose I
have flamed him enough for his lack of whatever he is missing....
	And by the way the file reached more than one sit screwed
up I downloaded from two separate sites and got the exact byte-
counts and messages each time.....Amateurs!!!

	In hopes this will tee off the 
		proper people --- Netiquette!
			
			Thanks for your time..