Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!umix!tardis!ronin!mike
From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Downloading Binaries
Message-ID: <416@tardis.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 87 04:15:23 GMT
References: <2873@sdsu.UUCP>
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Reply-To: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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Keywords: UUDECODE DOWNLOAD
Summary: Send the .uu file and then decode it on the Amiga

In article <2873@sdsu.UUCP> uzun@sdsu.UUCP (william uzun) writes:
>Every time I try and download a binary and run it I get an amigados
>"File is not an object module" error.  What I do is write the file to 
>my space, cut off the stuff up to and including the ----cut here---
>line, and run /bin/sh on it.  I then usually get a doc file and a .uu
>file.  I then do a uudecode on the file which gives me what I think
>is the object module.  I kermit that module over to my amiga
>using VT100 V2.7.   I then run XCHOP on it (which typically removes
>a single character) and try and run it.  It has yet to work.  Am I
>doing something wrong?  (The last time I tried to do this was on the
>Virus 1.2 program)
>
>Thanks
>-Roger

I find that you have much better luck if you send the .uu file to your
Amiga and then use the Amiga version of uudecode.  Then you won't have
any problem with extra characterss in the Amiga file.

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