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From: dmkdmk@ecsvax.UUCP (David M. Kurtiak)
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Subject: Re: SPL Binary
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 19:38:50 EST
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> 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. 
 
SPLs entire five parts made it here without any problems whatsoever.
I just finished deARCing the file(s) and they have all tested out
okay.  So, there is probably no need to re-post it to the entire net.
If anyone else had any problems like the above mentioned, I can e-mail
if neccessary.
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           David M. Kurtiak
           UNC - Greensboro
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