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From: cel@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: ARCX problems
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 13:03:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  5 13:03:56 1987
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I've been trying to get the ARCX program that was posted going on my
800, with only a certain amount of luck.  The program as posted
uudecodes to a binary load file that looks like:

    $FFFF               binary file flag
    $2416 - $4D38       part1
    $0400 - $0510       part2
    $02E0 - $02E1       starting address    = $3000
    $FF1A - $FFFF       ??  all $FF's ??

the last segment won't load properly on my system, and it looks like a
control-Z followed by $FF's.  I truncated the last piece, and the program
at least loads and starts running, asking for an archive file, and
doing a disk directory properly.  When I uudecode JUMBO and have ARCX
work on it, it starts to extract ARC.COM,

            (paraphrasing)
<Enter filename or + for directory>
>JUMBO.ARC
DRIVE #1
SCREEN OFF?: N
<Extracting ARC.COM> ... 196 bytes  <squeezed>

and just hangs there.  Checksums match for uudecoded JUMBO and ARCX when
uudecoded on my 800 and VAX/VMS, so I think they uudecoded okay.  Are there
some system dependencies?  I have a 48K `plain vanilla' 800, running
OSS's DOSXL.  I've also tried Atari DOS 2.0, with the exact same results.

                    -- Chuck Lane
                                    cel@cithex.caltech.edu
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