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From: fff@Data-IO.COM (Fred Freeland)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SKY.ARC error
Message-ID: <1516@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 88 17:47:23 GMT
References: <398@tsc.dec.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
Lines: 23
Keywords: bad header
Summary: Solutions

From postnews Wed Mar 30 09:44:31 1988
In article <398@tsc.dec.com>, pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt) writes:
> After uudecoding  the skyplot binary I get the following error
> when running "ARC L SKY.ARC"
> 
> An entry in SKY.ARC has a bad header.
>   46 bytes skipped.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem?  Do I need the 1st part of the uuencoded
> files?

I had the same problem, but I found that the program is actually a self-
extracting archive. Change the name from SKY.ARC to SKY.EXE and run it. You will
notice a big difference.  The poster should have provided us with this trivial
detail but since I managed to stumble onto it, no major aggravation was 
encountered. The program, by the way, is very impressive.  Nicely done!


-- 
Frederick F. Freeland Jr.  
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