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From: stevev@uoregon.UUCP (Steve VanDevender)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: S/370 Assembler Simulation Software
Keywords: 370 asm simulator
Message-ID: <1466@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 07:02:47 GMT
References: <1597@codas.att.com> <4305@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: stevev@drizzle.UUCP (Steve VanDevender)
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Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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The posting was not corrupted, although it looked that way.  I got it
to unpack fine after two discoveries.

The first was that the uuencoded file had apparently been split in the
middle of lines.  Joining the partial line at the end of a section to
the partial line at the beginning of the next produced a correct-looking
uuencoded file.

The second was more vexing but easier to fix--the name of the file that
uudecode was to produce was "asm370.uu".  Guess what I named
the uuencoded file.  Yup, "asm370.uu".  A stupid mistake which caused my
first attempt to decode the file to crash because uudecode wrote right
back into the uuencoded file.  The file turned out to be a PC archive
packed with PKARC and should therefore have been called "asm370.arc",
which is more descriptive.

There's a handy program called "split" which will chop programs into
nice 1000 line pieces.  This is especially handy for sending uuencoded
files because each piece is just under 65,000 bytes, as big as some mailers
will handle.  It also won't split lines in the middle, which makes it
easier to put the pieces back together.
-- 
Steve VanDevender	uoregon!drizzle!stevev	stevev@oregon1.BITNET
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