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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Receiving files from comp.binaries.amiga
Message-ID: <4649@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 19:17:29 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4649
Posted: Tue Oct 27 19:17:29 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 06:22:59 EST
References: <2701@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
Lines: 27
Keywords: downloading, comp.binaries.amiga, PD software
Summary: Transfer first -- then uudecode!

In article <2701@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, Lee Hunt (hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU)
writes:

> I was glad to find that there was a depository for Amiga software, but
> I don't seem to be able to use it!  What I'm doing is this:
> 
> 1) I save the uuencoded posting to a file (using non-mailbox format)
> 
> 2) I clip off the header from the top of the archive file I just created.
> 
> 3) I uudecode it.
> 
> 4) I transfer it to my Amiga.
> 
> The only problem is that I always get a corrupted file.  When I try to run
> the program, I get a 'file is not an object module' error.  . . .

Move step #3 after step #4 -- transfer the file to the Amiga and *then*
uudecode it!  (Uudecode is available on Fish Disk #53, I think. . .)

Try it -- it works (at least for me)!

					Steve Rice

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