Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!raylau
From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: StuffIt 1.40A UnBinHex
Keywords: The bug is really a feature - no joking
Message-ID: <4481@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 23:16:05 GMT
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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In response to all the complaints about -39 unexpected EOF errors....

I'll admit.  The situation confounded me.  But from what Chuq mentioned, I see
now the cause of all problems.

Everyone complained that 1.31 didn't skip the news headers.

The suggestion offered was that the line: (This file... should be checked
for as it always appeared at the beginning.

It was also noted that a : never starts a line in the news/mail header...

Instead of checking for (This file..., what 1.40A does is check for a colon
right after a CR or a LF.  It will start decoding at that point.

This was intended to make it easier to decode postings as you need not
strip the header.  Thus, this bug is really a feature.  (Yea yea - that's the
usual joke about bugs....but what am I to say?)

It appears that everyone likes overstripping the headers.  Hey, if everyone
says that it's OK to check for (This file..., it should be even more permissible
to check for a CR or LF!  Which is why I opted for that route.


-Ray

(raylau@dasys1.UUCP)