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From: mdk@cblpf.ATT.COM (x5693)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: HELP
Message-ID: <757@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 08:04:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: cblpf.757
Posted: Thu Oct  8 08:04:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 11:52:21 EDT
Reply-To: mdk@cblpf.ATT.COM (59261-Mike King-x5693)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Columbus, Ohio
Lines: 41
Keywords: OS9 UUDECODE
Summary: I just can't get it to work


Hello everyone,
I need some help.  I have tried downloading the uuencoded 'ar' file several
times and everytime I try to uudecode it, I get an error message stating:
     Short file
     Error 010
I use Cer-Comp's DatapackIII+ as my terminal software, so the files
originally get put onto an RSDOS diskette.  The first time I transferred
the 'ar' file from the RSDOS disk to my OS9 disk using TRSCOPY.  After I
transferred the file I ran uudecode on it (this is the latest uudecode version
with the added 644 in the scanf line).  I have also edited the original 'ar'
file to include the 'begin ar 644' line at the top.  Uudecode runs for a while
and I get about half a decoded file (the original file length was $4000 bytes,
the decoded file is $2EEC bytes long).  finally, I tried to edit the file to
see if some mystery characters had been picked up through the download.
TSEDIT did show question marks (?) in front of each line.  Of course TSEDIT
couldn't edit the whole file at once, it was too large for the buffer.

I have checked the uudecode file and I don't see anything wrong with it.
There was also a strip program in a recent Rainbow magazine that would
strip line feeds from programs downloaded through DESKMATE.  I compiled the
strip program, ran it, and output from it said that it stripped 6 control
characters from the 'ar' file, but I still can't get the darn thing to
decode.

Has anyone else had these problems, and what have you done about it?  I
would really like to use the patch programs to use TSEDIT on an 80 column
window.

Thanks for any help anyone can render.

Mike King
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