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From: dick@plx.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
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Subject: Re: Microemacs + DND.PKA problems
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 19:38:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 19:38:13 1987
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In article <5989@ut-ngp.UUCP> ayac071@ngp.UUCP (Bill Douglass) writes:
>In article <7700@think.UUCP> shmergel@think.COM (Gregory Schmergel) writes:
>>
>>I have all the parts to the recent MicroEmacs posting, and I extracted
>>the 547K file MEIBM.EXE on my PC XT. When I type MEIBM, though, the
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>system hangs and I have to reboot. Does anyone know what's going on?
>>
>
>Just guessing here, but I generally suspect any MS-DOS executable that's
>over 500k in size :-)
>
>Seriously, I have had much trouble also with corrupted uuencoded files
>taken off the net.  I can't determine if local or net software is to
>blame, but about 75% of the encoded .exe & .arc files I pull in are
>unusable.
>
>Is this a common experience for others?  I would appreciate hearing about this.

The meibm.exe file should be 76,112 bytes in size, not 500+Kb.  It sounds
like you have a corrupted file.

My success to failure rate with net-downloaded uuencoded arc/exe files
is running about 85% good, with only a handful being corrupted (The
recent timed-park routine was the first bad one I've had in a long time).

I assume the original poster realizes that the .arc file is in PKARC
format, not standard SEA arc format--it appears that some of our net
moderators feel that everyone should be forced to use PKARC because
they (the moderators) obviously know what's best for us netlanders.  As
soon as I get a copy of one of these .PKA files, I immediately convert
it to a normal .ARC in case I ever need to give it to someone else
who is not so fortunate(?) as to be PK-literate.

If that might be your problem, and if you would like a plain vanilla
.ARC file, let me know and I'll arrange to get a copy to you one way
or another.

Good Luck. . . .
-- 
Dick Flanagan, W6OLD                            Long Live Zero Print Control
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