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From: wjvax!mario@decwrl.dec.com (Mario Dona)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Failed CRC in HYPER arc file
Message-ID: <3131@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 13:17:08 GMT
Sender: ibmbin@bsu-cs.UUCP
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(Sorry for posting a complaint here, but our site doesn't have 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d yet.)

I recently downloaded the HYPER program off the net using the 
following shell script (as recommended by Raul):

   #! /bin/sh
   cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d'| uudecode

The resultant arc file  was:

     HYPER    ARC   172171   5-16-88  12:29p

However, in un-archiving the file, it informed me that FILE55 failed
the CRC check.

Figuring that the shell script was somehow responsible, I went back to
the original files, concatenated them the old way (slow and
tedious), and created a second arc file.  This time it resulted in
the following arc file:

     HYPER    ARC   209185   5-16-88   2:25p

Can anybody tell me what's going on here??  The second file is not only
21% larger than the first, but FILE55 still failed  the CRC check!

BTW, I used PKARC to un-archive the file.  If anyone got all files to
un-archive properly, please send me FILE55 by email.  Thanks.

  Mario Dona
  ...!{ !decwrl!qubix, ames!oliveb!tymix, pyramid}!wjvax!mario         
  The above opinions are mine alone and not, in any way, those of WJ.