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From: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Downloading Binaries
Message-ID: <1803@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 87 14:37:18 GMT
References: <2873@sdsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Patrick White)
Organization: PUCC Land, USA
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Keywords: UUDECODE DOWNLOAD

[I'm posting this because we seem to get the same question over and over]

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)

   Yes, you are doing something wrong.  Namely, you are kermiting the
*executable*.  It should work, but dosen't.
   I suggest you dounload the .uu files and uudecode them on the Amiga --
that is what I do and it works every time.  You could also download the
shar file and unshar it on the Amiga -- but more about that in a separate
posting.  (BTW, we at moderator's anonymous guarantee that any shar file
posted to the moderated groups can be unshared on the Amiga -- not
necessarily so for the stuff posted directly to comp.sys.amiga.)

   For those of you who are new to downloading stuff to the Amiga and what
to do with it to make it useable, stay tuned for another posting on
specifically that -- going to post it in about an hour.


-- Pat White   (co-moderator comp.sources/binaries.amiga)
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