Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!bill
From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Downloading Binaries
Message-ID: <2999@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 16:51:22 GMT
References: <2873@sdsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 27
Keywords: UUDECODE DOWNLOAD

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

XCHOP is used to remove the padding added in by xmodem transfers. If you
are using kermit you should not need to chop the file. Otherwise get the
uuencoded version onto the amiga and use the Amiga version of uudecode
to decode it.
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