Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Problems de-arcing NULLFILL.ARC (Was: NULLFILL ARCed source)
Keywords: CRC fail
Message-ID: <899@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 09:27:43 GMT
References: <8812210153.AA26758@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
Lines: 33

In article <8812210153.AA26758@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> U46050@UICVM.BITNET (JOHN ZAFIRIS) writes:
|I have received some requests for the source code for NULLFILL and
|suspect that there is enough residual interest for it that I have sent
|an .ARC of it and the executable.  I don't know which file servers most
|on the 'net have access to and since the UUE for this ARC is not too
|long (137 lines) it is appended to this note.
|                                                               ...John
   [uuencoded file removed...]

I tried to uudecode and de-arc this stuff, but arc.ttp complains (I'm
using version 5.21):

$ arc.ttp x nullfill.arc
Extracting file: NULLFILL.PRG
Corrupted compressed file.
Invalid code 535 when max is 533.
WARNING: File NULLFILL.PRG fails CRC check
An entry in NULLFILL.ARC has a bad header.   97 bytes skipped.
Extracting file: NULLFILL.SRC
Corrupted compressed file.
Invalid code 2541 when max is 2151.
WARNING: File NULLFILL.SRC fails CRC check
An entry in NULLFILL.ARC has a bad header.   1292 bytes skipped.
Extracting file: NULLFILL.TXT
Corrupted compressed file.
Invalid code 1512 when max is 1060.
WARNING: File NULLFILL.TXT fails CRC check
An entry in NULLFILL.ARC has a bad header.   586 bytes skipped.
$

An older version of arc.ttp (5.12) also reveals errors. Am I the only
one having these problems?
                          Leo.