Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph
From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems de-arcing NULLFILL.ARC (Was: NULLFILL ARCed source)
Summary: Shame on you all :-) :-)
Keywords: CRC fail
Message-ID: <271@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 10 Jan 89 17:08:59 GMT
References: <8812210153.AA26758@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <899@philmds.UUCP> <907@philmds.UUCP>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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In article <907@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
| Thanks to Dennis Pixton I found the cause of the problem:
| The preceding table used tildes for carets (~ instead of ^). Since
| neither the Unix uudecode nor my own ST hack of uudecode knows about
| translation tables, the resulting arc file was corrupt. Replacing ~ by ^
| and again uudecoding solved this. Hmm, my uu[de|en]code needs revising...
| 
| B.T.W. anyone knows of a standard Unix uu[de|en]code (not the Dumas
| program) that knows about tables? Ultrix's doesn't.

That's just it, why isn't everyone using Jean-Pierre Dumas' UUD and
UUE combination.  I believe that it was his good idea to use
translation tables.  Living on BITNET can influence such behavior!  I
even have UUD running on my Sun and under Ultrix!  Now I don't know if
I'm allowed to release the Unix(tm) version or not.  If someone has
more information (or his telephone number) let me know.

--ralph


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