Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!eutrc3!wswietse From: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need comport.s from PCMAIL posting Message-ID: <225@eutrc3.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 18:09:22 GMT References: <762@devon.UUCP> Reply-To: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema) Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands Lines: 77 In article <762@devon.UUCP> paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) writes: > >While unpacking the PCMAIL distribution, I got the following error: > > shar: Extracting "comport.s" (20454 characters) > shar: "comport.s" unpacked with wrong size! > >The comport.s that I got is: > > -rw-r----- 1 paul sysadm 20452 Apr 30 12:21 comport.s > >which is apparantly two bytes too small. Can someone who got this >file intact please e-mail YOUR INTENTION to send me the correct file. >Don't send the file; I don't need my mailbox flooded with copies. I'll >pick the person closest (read: least number of hops) to me to actually >send the file. > There is nothing wrong with the comport.s you have received. The two missing characters are just extraneous carriage-returns at the end of the file. I came to this comclusion by comparing the news articles with the originals submitted for posting in comp.sources.misc. I also found a change in the second shar file; this also is not fatal. The diffs are listed below. For those not familiar with context diffs, the original text is listed first, followed by the changed version. Lines with ! indicate the differences. *** Part01 Wed Apr 20 17:21:59 1988 --- /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/misc/96 Tue Apr 26 11:18:07 1988 *************** *** 684,691 X_TEXT ENDS X Xend ! X^M ! X^M END_OF_comport.s if test 20454 -ne `wc -c