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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: teltnuag CRC error
Message-ID: <222@esquire.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 13:22:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 13:22:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 11:44:40 EST
References: <100@mtunj.ATT.COM> <1400@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <1400@cup.portal.com> Tim_M_Dierks@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I retrieved 'teltnuag' from comp.binaries/mac and when I tried to un-binhex
>>it, it gave me a CRC error. I'm not sure which part is giving me the
>>problem.
>
>I had the same problem...  All I did was kill the description text at the
>beginning, and then it worked...  Maybe there was something in there that
>managed to get by the text filter?

I think BinHex just looks for a ':' and starts decoding from there.  It may
be that all the news lines at the top confuse it occasionally.  Once I
started using bhcomb (which strips those lines out), I haven't had a problem.

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