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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WARNING: problem with Amiga shar program on StarChart
Message-ID: <313@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 15:27:46 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.313
Posted: Tue Jan 20 15:27:46 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 19:59:10 EST
References: <5213@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <5213@amdahl.UUCP> kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>
>I was going to look at Amiga-izing the StarChart programs and condensed
>Yale star catalog that were posted to net.sources this past week by Alan
>Paeth, and discovered that the 1st character of each line had been tossed
>away when it was unshared.  Naturally, this discovery was made after I'd
>already blown off the shar files themselves :-( !
>
>Now to go get the shar files again, and figure out what's so unique
>about this particular format that's being used (sigh).

What happened is that some shar files are constructed without a fill character
at the start of the line, but the sed command line has something like /^@/,
which I guess means 0 character, but the unshar routine in the shar program
doesn't know that @ is magic, and counts it as 1 character, hence the
stripping of the first character.
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