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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: more Stuffit 1.40A problems
Keywords: stuffit
Message-ID: <53299@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 May 88 23:32:06 GMT
References: <56@melbcae.edu.au> <6150019@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <7547@boring.cwi.nl>
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>I see several people claiming their stuffit version doesn't have the
>disk error -39 problem. My copy does have this problem, so maybe one
>of the lucky persons is kind enough to send me a working copy?

I tracked this turkey down last night, the hard way. It turns out that if
you strip off the entire header of the binhex file, so the first line starts
with ":", you'll get the error -39. If you leave the "(Unpack this file..."
or a blank line in front of it, it works fine. Evidently there's a little
problem in the "strip the header" code of 1.40a that fails if there's
no header. Oops.

----- This fails ----
:slfdj0234lsdflsfdj93r4wjfslfjds
.....
lsfjdslfldfs:
--------------------------

------ This Works -------

:slfdj0234lsdflsfdj93r4wjfslfjds
.....
lsfjdslfldfs:
--------------------------

Hope this helps!

chuq

Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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