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From: cscbrkac@charon.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Davex
Summary: Problems building the helpfile in c.b.apple2 distribution?
Message-ID: <3106@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 16 May 88 04:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: cscbrkac@unmc.UUCP (Lazlo Nibble)
Organization: The Kate Bush/Mary Steenburgen Anti-Conspiracy
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>>   I downloaded the update of Davex, and discovered a slight problem.  Has
>> anyone gotten the help file to work?  I can read text in the first half, but
>> I can't get any later commands.  Has anyone else had this problem?  By the
>> way, this is the one off of apple2-l.  Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
> I too encountered the very same problem.
> Could Jeffrey Alan Ding post the two help files, this time in working
> condition? The rest of Davex is realy excellent.
>
> Eran Lachs, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Assuming the Davex from APPLE2-L and comp.binaries.apple2 are the same, the
copy posted WAS in working condition.  My copy (from c.b.apple2) works fine.

If you are using "stripexec" on the files before you download them, this is
where your problem comes from.  At the end of the second half of the helpfile
(as posted) are a few commands to combine the two posted halves into the
working version of the file.  These commands are removed by stripexec.  Just
remove the header and trailer from the second file by hand and it'll work fine
when you exec them together.

If you still have problems, see if you can get someone to email the thing to
you.  Only two or three people have complained about problems and it's kind of
a waste to repost for that few people.

-- 
Lazlo Nibble (cscbrkac@charon.unm.edu)       "Sailboats of ice on desert sand"