Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson
From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atalk III 1.0e
Summary: why must auto-chop mung the file?
Keywords: zoo arc vt100 ATalk-III chop zmodem
Message-ID: <343@antares.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 08:02:52 GMT
References: <242@lakesys.UUCP> <00063@meph.UUCP> <14652@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <14652@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:

>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.
>

Please pardon my ignorance, but why must an auto-chop mung the end of a .zoo
or .arc file? Shouldn't it leave the file alone if it doesn't know how much
to chop?

By the way, I received my A-Talk III upgrade today, I'm running it now. So
far, I like it! I tried a 9600 baud Z-modem transfer from a Sun server at
work, it worked 1st time, and very quickly. It may be that I will finally
retire vt100, which I have been using in preference to the several other
commercial comm programs I own.


>-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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just another unofficial and unsolicited comment from:
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