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From: jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BROKEN FISH ALPHALIST
Message-ID: <10028@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 89 15:46:17 GMT
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Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis
Alphabetic Listing.  Since then I have been pulling out what little hair
I have remaining.  I have come to the conclusion that either....
  a.  I do not know what I am doing.
  b.  I am doing it incorrectly
  c.  My copy is broken
  d.  All of the above

Unfortunately Russ did not specify how the listing was packaged, so I made
some semi(?) intelligent guesses.  The first line was 'BEGIN 750 ff.zoo'
so I thought it was probably ZOOed then UUENCODed.  UUDECODE did not argue
with that idea, but it did say the file was short, and reduced my 30K file
to 5K.  Immediately my deductive mind realized 'There may be a problem here'!
  
Undaunted, I pressed forward and gave the results to ZOO.  ZOO began to do 
its thing, turned pale and threw up a core dump.  Hmm, things are looking
dire Watson.  Next I stripped off the text from the original message and 
tried to run that thru UUDECODE with the same result as the previous 
execution of UUDECODE  (as it should be).

Moving onward in the face of insurmountable opportunites I decided to give
ZOO another crack at it.  I fed it a copy of the stripped out versio.
ZOO said "This archive is corrupted, get it out of here"! 

A UNIX Guru (also an AMIGA owner) and I tried several different attacks.
They were all repelled with similar disastrous results.

My first thought was that the posting was broken, but I watched the mail
and no one else seemed to be wounded.  That began to cast a shadow upon
my technical prowess. ( I know, it would be a short shadow 8^) )  

To wit....HHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!  What is broken?  The original posting,
my copy, or my approach??  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  There
is a group of us here very interested in getting this listing.

Thanks in advance for the fine support this body has become know for.

Regards,  Jerry