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From: kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: problems with AWRITE and virtural drives
Message-ID: <1853@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 21:23:46 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1853
Posted: Sun Nov  8 21:23:46 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:46:08 EST
References: <1840@cadovax.UUCP> <1318@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1318@cup.portal.com> Rick_R_Kitts@cup.portal.com writes:
>
> I also discovered a problem with AWRITE. When I attempted to AWRITE
>an ARC'ed file the file that ended up on the Amiga side was empty!
>I broke the ARC into pieces (they were all text) and moved it over
>with no problem. I was wondering how AWRITE determines EOF. Does it
>actually look for a Control-Z and consider it the EOF? I hope not!

The answer is to use the undocumented '/b' option.  It writes the data
without regard to end of line or end of file differences.  For example:
    awrite a:foo.bar df1:foo.bar /b
(just be sure you don't use a virtural MS-DOS drive as the source)

Kerry Zimmerman
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!kaz  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170
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