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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atalk III 1.0e
Message-ID: <14652@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 89 02:11:35 GMT
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In article <00063@meph.UUCP> gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff) writes:
>In article <242@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
>>In article <14049@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>The way Atalk III is doing it, someone with only floppies
>won't be able to download large files, and amiga is getting larger files 
>all the time on bbs's and public networks as people make big animations and
>such.  This sounds strange.

Auto Chop in general should hardly be used at all since most files on BBS are 
now ARC-ed or ZOO-ed, especially all those animations.  "Chopping" an ARC or 
ZOO file will always produce a "munged" last file.  If you are transferring 
a single file, it will be munged and ZOO or ARC won't be able to decompress it
properly. When running the resulting program one will get the dreaded
"unable to load XXXX: file is not an objetc module".  Whatever program you
are using, please turn auto-chop off for .ARC and .ZOO files.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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